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| Keywords: Kinmichi II - Short Sword with Black Lacquer Saya - Walters 511261.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Kinmichi II <br/> This blade was shortened from a large tachi and appears to be a work by Tametsugu or a related smith working in the 14th century It combines elements of the Soshu and Mino styles The mounts for this blade include a black lacquer saya with polished cherry blossoms on a dull ground and an elaborate kojiri of gold and silver with crayfish and waves The piece also has a silver kurigata a gold and copper kozuka handle with a whale an inscription on the handle and blade a gold habaki and seppa a silver tsuba and fuchi a gold menuki with two carp a shibuichi and a gold kashira Ray skin and ito-maki decorate the two-handed tsuka between 1871 1873 Meiji-Nambokucho lacquer steel silver gold copper alloy ray skin shibuichi cm 55 8 accession number 51 1261 39534 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Signature Takamoto Hidemune; Signature Fujiwara Kinmichi; Transcription Takamoto Hidemune/Meiji yonen Kanoto-Hitsuji nagazuki; Transcription Meiji roku tsuki/Takamoto Hidemune; Translation Meiji 6 1873 /Takamoto Hidemune; Translation Takamoto Hidemune/Meiji 4 1871 8th cycle September place of origin Edo present-day Tokyo Japan Walters Art Museum license Japanese swords and koshirae in the Walters Art Museum Wakizashi Takamoto Hidemune Kinmichi II Tametsugu | ||||
