EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED YOKOYAMA KOZUKE DAIJO FUJIWARA SUKESADA

Frederick Malling Pedersen assembled his collection of Japanese art between 1910 and 1930. Pedersen's life-long interest in Japan and Japanese art began with the purchase of a set of swords (daisho) on a trip to Asia in the 1870s with his seafaring grandfather. His interest in Japanese swords and armor deepened while a student at Columbia University through his affiliation with the Arms and Armor Club of New York and later through friendship with Bashford Dean, Curator of Arms and Armor of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The majority of the collection was purchased through Yamanaka and Co., New York and London, and at auction at the American Art Galleries, New York. A selection from the collection was sold at Christie's, New York, 23 March, 2004 to benefit The Metropolitan Museum of Art Department of Arms and Armor.