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Sword (tantô type)

(Japanese, dates unknown)
1449
Medium/TechniqueForged tempered steel
DimensionsLength: 3.6 cm (1 3/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Major Henry Lee Higginson
Accession number21.2452
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ClassificationsArms and armor
Collections
ProvenanceLent by H. L. Higginson, Dec. 31, 1910
Sword of the katana type with mounting
Osafune Norimitsu
1449
Sword of the tachi type
Osafune Yasumitsu
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Sword of the tachi type
Sword of the tachi type
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late 14th–early 15th centuries
Sword of the tantô type
Bishû Osafune Yoshimitsu
14th century
Sword of the tachi type
Bishû Osafune Morimitsu
late 14th century
Sword of the tachi type with mounting
Bishû Osafune Morishige
14th century
Kozuka with design of Mount Fuji and clouds
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early to mid-19th century
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1494
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Bishû Osafune Norimitsu
1527
Sword of the katana type
Hiromasa
15th- 16th centuries
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Naotsugu
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Sword of the katana type
Kurihara Nobuhide
1870