1937.174.B: Small cutting tool (aisuki) with curved blade, from a set for making Japanese woodblocks
Artists' Tools
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.174.B
- Title
- Small cutting tool (aisuki) with curved blade, from a set for making Japanese woodblocks
- Other Titles
- Transliterated Title: Aisuki
- Classification
- Artists' Tools
- Work Type
- knife
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/206045
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Curved steel(?) blade with wooden handle and copper rim
- Dimensions
- H. 11 x W. 1.4 x D. 1.1 cm (4 5/16 x 9/16 x 7/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, Class of 1907
- Accession Year
- 1937
- Object Number
- 1937.174.B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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