Gallery
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Antique Japanese (samurai) katana, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Antique Japanese (samurai) katana, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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A katana blade made by Muramasa, 16th century, in Tokyo National Museum.
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Antique Japanese (samurai) katana with koshirae and shirasaya, attributed to Sukenao, 1600s.
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Japanese katana showing a horimono (blade carving), MOMA.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)