![Postcard of Sword blades.](/database/media.php?file=postcard/image/0098/00980949.jpg&PHPSESSID=5i7b62fh4i1ahvkmoct5lsrgi2) 000-190-004-116-C © National Museums Scotland |
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Sword blades
Samurai, wore two swords, one long and one short. A different pair were worn at court and for ceremonial occasions, tachi, slung from the girdle, edge downwards and a tanto or guardless dirk thrust through the girdle.
a) This shortened katana, hasonly Fujishima left, a family name common in Kaga province in the 14th & 15th century. b) This blade for a slung sword, tachi, is signed Bishu Inuyama no ju Munefusa, probably a 17th century swordsmith from Owari Province.
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000-190-004-116-C |
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National Museums Scotland |
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0098: National Museums Scotland
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National Museums Scotland A.1956.634 |
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15th century 17th century 19th century a) 15th century b) 17th century
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30.00" L 33.50" L 39.50" L
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Scabbard, tachi Sword Tachi / sword
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Subject: |
Weapons / swords and daggers Weapons / swords and daggers Weapons / swords and daggers
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Japan Japan Japan
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Tachi or sword, with curved pointed tempered single-edged steel blade, a ray-skin hilt bound with silk cords, two gilt memuki, and a tsuba of dark alloy: Japan, 17th century Tachi scabbard of wood, decorated with a dragon on nashi-ji lacquer, dark alloy mounts, and flat silk suspension cords: Japan, 19th century Sword, with a curved single-edged steel blade, an ornamental guard, and a fish-skin hilt wrapped with black silk cord: Japan, 15th century
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