Subject: hatamoto samurai 'bannerman' warrior guard
Culture: Japanese
Setting: late Muromachi / Aizuchi-Momoyama, Japan 1544-1643
Object: 刀 katana long sword & 脇差 wakizashi short sword
Omdal Forge *
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
[above] "Blade for a Sword (Katana)
Steel Inscribed by Tadahiro (second generation)
Momoyama period, dated 1636"
Angel Sword *
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
[above] "Blade for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)
Steel Inscribed by Masatoshi
Momoyama period, early 17th century"
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Shi Jian *
* Dallas Museum of Art
Japan: late Momoyama period -- early Edo period,
early 17th century" [...]
Baycanto *
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