Scabbard for wakizashi (short sword)

Artist/Culture Japanese

Date1800s

Mediumwood, lacquer, silver

ClassificationsArms and Armor

Credit LineBequest of Mildred Marcus Levin and Harold Lester Levin of Nutley, NJ

Terms

Object number1976.264.2

DescriptionWood scabbard with red lacquer. Moth theme on silver and/or silver-alloy ishizuke (butt-cap).ProvenanceBequest of Harold Lester Levin

On View

Not on view

Japanese

early 1800s

Japanese

probably 1800s

Japanese

blade: 1416; mountings: early 1800s

Osafune, Norimitsu

1500s, with later fittings

Japanese

1700s

Japanese

1700s

Japanese

1700s

Japanese

early 1800s

Japanese

early 1400s, mountings of early 1800s

Japanese

1800s, blade perhaps 1500s

Japanese

late 1400s–early 1500s

Japanese

late 1600s