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Habaki for a sword of the tachi type
Japanese
Medium/Technique
Metal (brass)
Credit Line
Charles Goddard Weld Collection
Accession Number11.5097.2
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsArms and armor – Swords
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 120
ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 – d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 – d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)