SWORD, JAPANESE, TSURUGI

W1970.899a-b

BladeType: TSURUGI
Mei: mumei
Nagasa: 43.5 cm
Sori: muzori
Sugata: ken, or tsurugi
Nakago: 13.3 cm, one mekugi ana, ubu
Hada: tight masame
Hamon: suguba
Horimono: very crude ‘smooth’ dragon entwined around a ken on one side and five bonji on the other. Because of the design of the blade and koshirae, it is not possible to determine which side is the omote and which is the ura

Koshirae
Type: TSURUGI
Saya: black lacquer over wood, with traces of red lacquer depicting clouds, banded and grooved. Brass kojiri in the form of a chrysanthemum
Tsuka: lacquer over wood, ribbed with alternating black and gilt bands
Kashira: en suite with kojiri
Menuki: each modelled as a coiled dragon
Tsuba: fuchi and kuchi gane meet flush to form the tsuba. Iron, inlaid with silver dragons
Overall length: 64.7 cm

Ref; TROTTER, George, Japanese Swords and Fittings in the Western Australian Museum, Western Australian Museum, Perth 1989 No.76, page 108

From sheets;
Tang/UBU; Shape/kengyo; length[nagassa]/ 13.3cm; Filemarks[Yasuri-nei]/sujikai and kessho; Hole/one; signature[mei]/mumei

Department:

History Department

Collection

History Collection

Collection Item Data

Accession Number:	W1970.899a-b
Accession Date:	18 Apr 1967

Material

Lacquer/Wood	b - scabbard

Lacquer/Wood

Brass/Metal

Measurement

length	647mm	mounted

length	435mm	blade

length	133mm	tang

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