Tachi
Hoshi Takada no ju Fujiwara no Munekaga
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1600 - 1700
Materials
Brass, Leather, Wood, Fish skin, Copper, Steel
Measurements
33 mm (Width); 985 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328896.1
Summary
Sword; Tachi (Japanese sword), signed Hoshi Takada no ju Fujiwara no Munekaga, from the province of Bungo. He also worked in Bizen province in the middle of the 17th century. Long steel blade. Copper ferrule and two brass spacers with tsuba (inventoried separately). Blade fits into wooden handle covered with black fish skin with leather and black textile webbing. Two metal menukis with floral and butterfly decoration. Brass decorative kachira with matching ferrule at the other end of handle. Kachira has brass strap loop.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Makers and roles
Hoshi Takada no ju Fujiwara no Munekaga