Ryukyu waist knife with iron handle painted black lacquer sheath

[Ryukyu waist knife with iron handle painted black lacquer sheath]

Ryukyu waist knife, clear, 99.8 cm long. Qinggong Jiucang
The knife is hard and sharp, the scabbard is iron, and is wrapped with yellow belt. The handle is also made of iron. It is coated with shark skin, and then wrapped with yellow ribbon to form a continuous diamond pattern. The ring guard is embedded with eye penetration. During the Kangxi and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, the king of Ryukyu paid a large number of Japanese swords to the Qing court. Emperor Yongzheng once ordered the Qing Palace Manufacturing Office to make the head of the sword “which can be made according to the Japanese sword”. It can be seen that the Ryukyu waist knife has a certain impact on the military equipment of the Qing Palace