Tachi
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1500 - 1600
Materials
Brass, Steel, Lacquer, Wood, Textile, Fish skin
Measurements
38 mm (Width); 760 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Japan
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328898
Summary
Sword; Tachi sword. Steel, curved unsigned blade of ridgeless form (hiradzukuri). Engraved at top of blade with arrow shape. Brass spacer and further seven brass fittings including a flower form tsuba and three cross shaped fittings (not all the fittings are original) and brass end to handle. Wooden handle covered with cream fish skin with brass menukis in the form of a flower. Brass kachira to end. Blue cord with brass finials attached through hole in handle. Wooden scabbard lacquered in black with speckled white and with crazed style white lacquer shapes. With strap loop. 16th century. Sticky label on blade '12'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.