Short Samurai Sword (Wakizashi)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Mar 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Emperor Of Japan
notes: label: Notes
content: RECATALOGED 11/77 FROM #4134. CAT CARD FROM 4134 SAYS:"THIS IS THE LONGER OF THE TWO SWORDS THAT CAME IN AS A PAIR OR SET.THE SHEATH AND THE MATCHING HANDLE COVER ARE ENTIRELY OF PLAIN WOOD WITHOUT ANY DECORATION. 1/26/70 WAKIZASHI, SIGNED "MUSASHI (NO) DAIJO FUJIWARA TADAHIRO".MADE IN HIZEN PROVINCE ABOUT 1624-32. EXAMINED BY THE NBTHK SHINSA IN DALLAS, TEXAS, NOVEMBER, 1972. IDENTIFIED AS MUSASHI DAIJO TADAHIRO OF HIZEN, FIRST GENERATION, THE FOUNDER OF THE FAMOUS HIZEN-TADAYOSHI LINE AND STUDENT OF MYOJU. TADAHIRO I CHANGED HIS NAME FROM TADAYOSHI IN 1624 AND ADDED THE TITLE, MUSASHI DAIJO. HE CONTINUED THIS SIGNATURE UNTIL 1632 AND ACCORDINGLY, THIS BLADE DATES FROM THAT PERIOD. THIS BLADE WAS POLISHED IN 1971 BY MR. TERUTOYO FUJIMOTO."
label: Notes
content: Green certificate and other documentation are in Japanese swords and fittings Notebook 1 in Anthropology Records Room.
label: Notes
content: See Chang-Su Houchins. 1995. Artifacts of Diplomacy: Smithsonian Collections from Commodore Matthew Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854). Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, Number 37. P 112 and 113
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 199043
label: USNM Number
content: E116-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword / Sheath
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 77.5 cm
label: Length - Blade
content: 54 cm