Katana
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, Steel, Brass, Textile, Fish skin
Measurements
33 mm (Width); 1050 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328955.1
Summary
Sword; Katana, (Japanese sword) with signed blade. Signed on tang, under handle. Long steel blade with brass ferrule and two brass spacers. Metal and lacquer tsuba (inventoried separately 1328822/SNO.A.216). Wooden handle covered with cream fish skin and black textile webbing. Metal kachira (missing) and ferrule with raised snail decoration. Menukis of metal in the form of a creature.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.