IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163217
accession number:	0.5-1973

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sugata: [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, normal shinto shape, medium point
Kitae: [forging pattern]: itame with sporadic utsuri and bo-utsuri from around the mono-uchi upwards
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha with some areas of variation, wuth midare-ba and kinsuji, but very tight on the omote
Boshi [tip]: ko-maru
Horimono [carving]: none
Nakago [tang]: ubu, kiri file marks, one hole, ha-agari kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]: gilt copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: length of blade 68.0cm, length of tang 19.8 cm, curvature 1.7cm
Koshirae [mounting]: THE DAISHO MOUNTINGS ARE PERFECTLY MATCHING
The scabbards mottled black and brown lacquer with dragons moulded in high relief in red lacquer, the hilts bound with silk braid, the fuchi-kashira with gold high relief inlaid dragons on patinated copper alloy, signed HIRADO JU KUNISHIGE, the menuki of gilt dragons, the round tsuba of patinated copper ishimeji ground with dragons in high relief inlay of gold, both hitsuana plugeed with gold cover, SIGNED ICHI RYU TOMOYOSHI.
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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163217





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1670 - 1690
creation date earliest:	1670
creation date latest:	1690
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#
culture:	17th Century#
culture:	17th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: BUNSHU TAKADA (NO) FUJIWARA SHIGEYUKI