Scabbard and sword
date: label: Date
content: 1596–1615
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long steel blade with hilt wrapped spirally with black cord. Beneath cord, pebble-like texture. Pine-tree menuki. Oval tsuba of iron, silver, gold, and shibuichi. Design is a man and frog. Haliki silver plate. Fuchi-Kashira-bird of shibuichi and gold. Mark of tempering: HAMON, Gume Midare. The nakago is tong and has two holes.
place: label: Place
content: Yamato, Japan
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1941-59-7-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Scabbard and sword
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Steel, cord, iron, silver, gold, shibuichi
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 64.5 x 6 x 3.5 cm (25 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 3/8 in.)