Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)
Object type: Blade and mounting for a dagger (Tantō)
Department: Arms and Armor
Culture: Japanese
Artist: Kanemichi
Artist bio: Japanese, active mid-16th century
Artist role: Swordsmith
Artist nationality: Japanese
Date: blade, late 16th–early 17th century; mounting, 19th century
Medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé), baleen, silver, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)
Dimensions: L. 17 31/4 in. (43.8 cm); L. of cutting edge 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)
Classification: Daggers
Credit line: Gift of Charles M. Schott Jr., 1917
Accession year: 1919