IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163215
accession number:	TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS3

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 14 January 2014

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A katana in Shirasaya. Sugata: [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, broad, slight koshizori curve, medium point
Kitae: [forging pattern]: o-itame with much ji-nie
Hamon [tempering pattern]: gunome-choji of nioi with ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: kaen style
Horimono [carving]: kakinagasu bohi with soehi stopping 31.4cm above the mune machi
Nakago [tang]: suriage, katte-sagari file marks, two holes
Habaki [collar]: wood integral with shirasaya
Nagasa [length of blade]: length of blade 71.7cm , length of tang 24.1cm, curve 1.7cm
Koshirae [mounting]: in shirasaya

Although giving an initial appearance of age,and has an inscription suggesting it to be the work of a great 12th-13th century smith, the blade is a 19th century shinshinto and probably shortened around the time of it’s export from Japan at the end of the 19th century.
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/163215





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1899
culture:	19th Century
culture:	Edo Period (Japanese period, 1615-1868), Late

CREATORS
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maker: O-Tenta Masakuni Saku O
maker: Masakuni Old