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  • Other Name

    Japanese naginata (halberd or polearm) and scabbard (descriptive name)

    yari (Japanese)

  • Description

    Japanese naginata zukuri halberd or polearm) and scabbard, 1818

    [yari of Nagimata & Nagamaki class]

    maker: Masakata of Hizen no Kuni Province, Nagasaki Prefecturei; Shinshintou era, Late Edo period; 19th century (1818)

    markings: Hirado Omi Kiyohara-Masakata (front); Bunsei Gan-Nen Hachigatsu Kicjhijitsu (back)

    description: naginata Zukuri shape; inlaid with mother of pearl

    [Information about maker from Mr Kajihara (sword polisher & connoisseur) per Noriko Nakamura, 1995]

    [M Hopley 1983 & 1989) catalogue worksheet: blade has silvered copper guard; pole of black lacquered wood with silvered copper fittings; motifs: grape vines and leaves and six-circled plum blossom crest on side; tang signed on rhs with date: Bunsei gannen hatchigatsu kitsu jitsu [One lucky day in the eighth month of 1818; tang signed on lhs [not translated]

    James Jordan: signed Kiyohara Masakata; dated 1818, only one in collection; sound piece; pole good; nice double hawk feather mons

  • Place
    Japan Hizen prefecture/Japan
  • Accession Number
    1925.230
  • Accession Date
    30 Nov 1925
  • Other Id

    W2622 (war)

    7399 (ethnology)

  • Department

    World

W2622, japanese naginata

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