Title: Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)
Object type: Blade and mounting for a dagger (Tantō)
Date: blade, 19th century; mounting 19th century
Culture: Japanese
Artist: Fittings inscribed by Hidetsugu 
Artist bio: Japanese
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Sword maker
Medium: Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, lacquer, baleen, rayskin (samé)
Dimensions: L. in. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm); L. of blade 16 15/16 in. (43 cm); L. cutting edge 10 11/16 in. (27.1cm); D. of curvature 1/8 in. (0.3 cm)
Classification: Daggers
Credit line: Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891
Geography: Country of Origin    Japan      
Department: Arms and Armor
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY