IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162098
accession number:	HELM.O.271-1946

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
title:	sword

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by J. E. Helm

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162098





TECHNIQUES
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inlay
TECHNIQUES
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piercing
TECHNIQUES
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lacquering
TECHNIQUES
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high relief

CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1688 - 1688
creation date earliest:	1688
creation date latest:	1688
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#
culture:	17th Century#