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Shirasaya

Medium/TechniqueHō wood (Magnolia obovata, Japanese Bigleaf Magnolia)
Credit LineCharles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession number11.5144.3a-c
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsArms and armor
ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 – d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 – d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)
Sword of the katana type
Yoshikane
late 12th - early 13th centuries
Sword of the katana type
Muneyoshi
Late 12th–early 13th century
Sword of the katana type
Shikkake School
14th century
Sword of the katana type
Hasebe school
14th century
Sword of the tachi type
Osafune Kagemoto
13th–14th centuries
Sword of the tachi type
Osafune Kagemitsu
early 14th century
Sword of the wakizashi type
Osafune Nagamitsu
13th century
Sword of the katana type
Sukemitsu
late 13th - early 14th centuries
Sword of the tantô type
Bishû Osafune Yoshimitsu
14th century
Group shot: 11.11126, 11.11189, 11.11132, 13.323
Sword of the tantô type
Osafune Kanemitsu
1357
Sword of the katana type
16th–17th century
Sword of the katana type
Rai Kunimitsu
14th century