Wakizashi
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Copper, Leather, Steel
Measurements
742 mm (Length)70 mm (W)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328887
Summary
Sword; Wakizashi, signed by Yamato no Dai jo Fujiwara no Masatoshi, a seventeenth century swordsmith of Echizen province. There are three copper spacers and a tsuba decorated with dragons. Brown leather handle (worn) with strapping. There are two metal strips in the strapping of the handle on either side. Previously displayed in the Green Room - sticky label 19.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.