Keywords: Akihiro - Short Sword with Buddhist Deities and Dragon - Walters 511201 - Group.jpg between 1825 1875 Edo; Meiji lacquer steel silver gold ray skin copper mounted ko-wakizashi blade cm 34 3 l accession number 51 1201 3686 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Forged Signature Bishu Osafune Norimitsu dated 1412; Signature Akihiro saku; Translation han/Koka saku; Translation Made by Akihiro; Translation Made by Koka of province; Translation Norimitsu of Osafune Bizen province 1412 place of origin Bizen Japan Walters Art Museum license Japanese swords and koshirae in the Walters Art Museum Koshirae tanto Swords of the 19th century Edo period Meiji era Art forgery Norimitsu Akihiro |