Armor Piercing Knife Artist: Ochi Nobuhide (Japanese, active 1850–99)

2nd month 8th day in 1870

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Steel, unpainted wooden scabbard (shira saya)

Dimensions

metal section only: 11 7/16 in. (29.03 cm)
with handle: 13 1/16 × 7/16 in. (33.18 × 1.11 cm)
with scabbard: 7/16 × 12 11/16 in. (1.11 × 32.23 cm)

Credit Line

The Henry Pearson, M.F.A. 1938, Collection; gift of Dr. Lawrence Dubin, B.S. 1955, M.D. 1958, and Mrs. Regina Dubin

Accession Number

2005.16.3a-b

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Meiji era (1868–1912)

Classification

Arms

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Henry Charles Pearson (1914–2006) Collection, New York; Dr. Lawrence Dubin (1934–2018) and Regina Dubin Collection, New York; gift in 2005 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

armor

Signed

Signed, "Ochi Nobuhide of Naniwa" on one side (the larger hole side) and it dated 2nd month, 8th day in Meiji 3 (1870; smaller hole side).

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