Weapon - muzzle-loading pistol

Weapon - muzzle-loading pistol

Arts; Daily Life; Government-Military;

Muzzle-loading pistol, has the tamp attached below the muzzle. Wooden handle; fittings, barrel, and tamp are all metal. If it is Japanese, it dates around 1543 because guns were outlawed early in the Edo period, and did not reappear until the Meiji era.

Emison Art Museum

DePauw University

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Japan - Edo-Tokugawa 1615 - 1868