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Description: | A sword known as a Wakizashi. It has a heavy, single-edged and slightly back-curved blade, signed Minamoto Moritsugu. Four-sided guard decorated with foliage in bronze and gilt on the fore side and a hawk and foliage on the other. The grip has a criss-cross binding of tape (brown) and has an animal (?lion) in gilt incorporated in the binding. The pommel has a dragon head in gilt. The scabbard is wooden, covered with gold - flecked (nashiji) lacquer and with brass fittings in Tachi style.
Material: Metal, lacquer
Material: Wood | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.162018 | Go to resource |
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