Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

Kuniyoshi

Date

blade, dated 1525; mounting, 19th century

Type

Blade and mounting for a dagger (Tantō)

Medium

Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, lacquer, rayskin (samé), silk, abalone shell, silver

Department

Arms and Armor

Culture

Japanese

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

91.2.54

Credit

Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891