Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō) blade, dated November, 1333; mounting, 19th century Blade inscribed by Uda Kunimitsu Japanese Uda Kunimitsu lived in Uda in Yamato (present-day Nara Prefecture) and later moved to Ecchū (present-day Toyama Prefecture). He is recorded as working in the early to mid-fourteenth century. There were three generations of Kunimitsu swordsmiths who were active from the early fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth century, spanning the late Kamakura period to the mid-Muromachi period. Uda Kunimitsu was the first-generation swordsmith of the family and founder of the Uda School. Although there are a small number of surviving swords signed by Uda Kunimitsu, until the authentication of the inscription on this tantō in 1998 there were no known works by him that were both signed and dated. This tantō, therefore, provides an important foundation for the study of the entire Uda School.The shape of the tantō has a very slight curvature, with proportions that are wider a

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Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō) blade, dated November, 1333; mounting, 19th century Blade inscribed by Uda Kunimitsu Japanese Uda Kunimitsu lived in Uda in Yamato (present-day Nara Prefecture) and later moved to Ecchū (present-day Toyama Prefecture). He is recorded as working in the early to mid-fourteenth century. There were three generations of Kunimitsu swordsmiths who were active from the early fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth century, spanning the late Kamakura period to the mid-Muromachi period. Uda Kunimitsu was the first-generation swordsmith of the family and founder of the Uda School. Although there are a small number of surviving swords signed by Uda Kunimitsu, until the authentication of the inscription on this tantō in 1998 there were no known works by him that were both signed and dated. This tantō, therefore, provides an important foundation for the study of the entire Uda School.The shape of the tantō has a very slight curvature, with proportions that are wider a

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