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Description: | Wooden scabbard covered in black lacquer carved with fabric design and rings around upper section, ornamented with web in gold lacquer and iron spider, with copper frog lacquered wood scabbard, hilt covered with ray-fish skin and bound with silk cord, metal fittings, decorated with frog and insects. Inlaid with shakudo and gold kojiri (scabbard chape) of iron with grasshopper and butterfly in relief with antennae and eyes of gold inlay. Uragawara (strip covering kozuke opening) of iron with dragonfly in relief with gold inlay. Kurikata (knob on side of scabbard) of iron with snail and butterfly in relief with gold inlay and gold and copper openings. Kuchi-kane (scabbard mouth ring) of iron and silver with four insects in relief with gold inlay and antennae and eyes. Design continued on fuchi. Kozuka, knife handle, obverse of iron ornamented with grasshopper and two insects in relief with antennae and eyes in gold inlay, reverse of sentoku inscribed. Steel blade with stylised engraved characters. Kogai, split in two halves, ornamented on the iron obverse side with mantis and insect, eyes and antennae in gold inlay, reverse of sentoku inscribed. Hilt wood covered in same and bound with white braid cord. Iron kashira ornamented with grasshopper with two flies in relief with antennae and eyes in gold inlay. Tachi of iron and silver, ornamented with four insects in relief with antennae and eyes in gold inlay, design continued onto kuchi-kane of scabbard (N1). | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.science&industry.285385 | Go to resource |
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