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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“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)
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