EditorialSword with inlaid handle. Two-edged spatha with a dramatized blade and a gilded hilt. The two-part sword button and the parchment are decorated with plaiting patterns, which are then gilded. The knot consists of two pieces, of which the triangular knob...
EditorialUtagawa's Lifetime Masterpiece, from the Japanese version of the Shuihu Zhuan, Edo period (1615?1868), 1863 (5th month), Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 1/8 x 28 1/2 in. (35.9 x 72.4 cm), Prints, Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese...