Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō), blade, dated November, 1333; mounting, 19th century, Japanese, Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin (samé), leather, copper, gold, silver, gold, shark skin, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), L. 17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm); L. of cutting edge 12 in. (30.4 cm), Daggers, Uda Kunimitsu lived in Uda in Yamato (present-day Nara Prefecture) and later moved to Ecchū (present-day Toyama Prefecture). He is recorded as working in the early to mid-fourteenth century. There were three generations of Kunimitsu swordsmiths who were active from the early fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth century, spanning the late Kamakura period to the mid-Muromachi period
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Blade, Mounting, Dagger, Tantō, blade, dated November, 1333, mounting, 19th century, Japanese, Steel, wood, lacquer, ray skin, samé, leather, copper, gold, silver, shark, copper-gold alloy, shakudō, L, 17 5/8, 44.7 cm, cutting edge 12, 30.4, Daggers, Uda Kunimitsu, lived, Uda, Yamato, present-day Nara, Prefecture, later moved, Ecchū Toyama, recorded, working, early, mid-fourteenth, three generations, Kunimitsu swordsmiths, active, early fourteenth, mid-fifteenth spanning, late Kamakura, period, mid-Muromachi period
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