IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163240
accession number:	TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS16

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 16 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sugata: [configuration]: honzukuri, even curve, medium point
Kitae: [forging pattern]:  itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: large gunome choji with tama within the ha
Boshi [tip]: pointed return
Horimono [carving]: none
Nakago [tang]: ubu, katte-sagari file marks, one hole, iriyamagata tip
Habaki [collar]: single gilt copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 53.6cm, tang 14.4cm, curvature 1.4cm
Koshirae [mounting]:  wakizashi mountin, the black lacquered scabbard missing the kurikata, and iron kojiri, the hilt tightly bound with crossed, parallel, and twisted sections of silki braid, the fuchi-kashira iron with paulownia mon in high relief gold inlay, no menuki, the round fine shakudo nanako tsuba with thirteen paulownia mon each isde in scattered array, some in pairs of  equal size. Overall length 92.8cm
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/163240





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:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#
culture:	19th Century