Sugata: [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, suriage, even curve, extended point
Kitae: [forging pattern]: fine and bright ko-itame with fine ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: large saka gunome choji with ashi and yo, large nijuba
Boshi [tip]: midare-komi with kuzure return
Horimono [carving]: bohi grooves
Nakago [tang]: suriage with orikaeshi-mei, on hole and a partial hole on the folded portion,
Habaki [collar]: single lightly silvered copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 50.0cm, tang 15.7cm, curvature 0.8cm
Koshirae [mounting]: Daisho mounting, the scabbard with fragments of shell inlaid into the black lacquer and polished smooth. A paper label reads ‘Mutsu-n-kami, (probably the lord of Sendai, 1868), fuchi-kashira of a shishi before a torrent emerging from a rocky surround, with bamboo grasses in high relief with gold inlay on a shakudo nanako ground. Menuki missing from the wakizashi. The round iron tsuba of the wakizashi pierced with water plantains
Bequeathed by J. E. Helm
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
17th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1688
Scabbard Inlay
composed of
shell
Tsuba
composed of
iron
Height 7.8 cm
Width 7.3 cm
Inlay
composed of
copper
gold
silver
Blade Curvature
Curved Edge 0.8 cm
Tang
Length 15.7 cm
Blade
Length 50 cm
Inlay
Piercing
Lacquering
High relief
Accession number: HELM.O.271-1946
Primary reference Number: 162098
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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