IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163214
accession number:	TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS2

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Signed (Orikaeshi-Mei) Morimitsu. Sugata: [configuration]: shobu-zukuri (‘iris’ shape)
Kitae: [forging pattern]: itame with mokume flowing in places
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome with togari-ba of ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Horimono [carving]: on the omote the written invocation ‘Hachiman Dai Bosatsu’ (Hachiman, the Great Bodhisattva), now mostly concealed from immediate view beneath the hilt due to the blade having been shortened, and on the ura a sanskrit character for Hachiman
Nakago [tang]: suriage with orikaeshi (folded-over signature) Morimitsu, two holes, deep katte-sagari file marks
Habaki [collar]: double gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 36.4 ( about 1mm broken off the point). Length of tang 9.3cm. Curvature 0.7cm
Koshirae [mounting]: blade preserved in shirasaya (retaining peg missing) of overall length 53.2cm: The mounting is number [29] on this list and both mounting and blade are accompanied by silk bags inside a lacquer box.
title:	Japanese weapons

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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163214





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1400 - 1499
creation date earliest:	1400
creation date latest:	1499
culture:	Muromachi Period (1336-1573)
culture:	15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: (Orikaeshi-Mei) Morimitsu