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Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection

Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection

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A group of four Tanegashima teppo [matchlock rifles] | Edo period, 19th century

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A group of four Tanegashima teppo [matchlock rifles]

Edo period, 19th century

 

the four matchlock rifles of typical form, each variously decorated and inlaid in silver, the first with calligraphic inscription, the second with a three-clawed dragon coiled around the barrel above mon, gilt eyes, the third with a ho-o bird among flowering paulownia, the fourth with further coiled dragon among clouds


each approx. 135 cm., 53⅛ in. long

Art of the Samurai: The Paul L. Davidson Collection (New York, 2023), p. 108.

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