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| Keywords: Toshitsugu - Dagger in Scabbard with Butterflies and Peonies - Walters 511237 - Group.jpg The tanto blade from the early 14th century is inscribed with the Sanskrit character presenting the Buddhist deity Fud My- It is mounted in a 19th-century scabbard decorated with butterflies on lacquer and metalwork depicting peonies Some of the metal fittings are signed Toshitsugu ca 1320 Kamakura dark brown lacquer silver gold steel L cm 43 accession number 51 1237 36531 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Inscription On blade Fudo Myo-o; Signature On kozuka and kogai Toshitsugu; Signature On scabbard Akimasa The Nature of Loyalty Japanese Warrior Prints of the Nineteenth Century The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1989 place of origin Japan Walters Art Museum license Tosogu Japanese sword fittings in the Walters Art Museum Toshitsugu Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Fudō Myōō | ||||
