wakizashi
Sugata: [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri,
Kitae: [forging pattern]: not visible
Hamon [tempering pattern]: not clearly visible, but appears to be gunome choji
Boshi [tip]: not visible
Horimono [carving]: none
Nakago [tang]: file marks indistinct, one hole, abrupt ha-agari kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]: a double copper habaki clad all over in a single silver sheet
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 53.3cm, tang 16cm, curvature 1.7cm
Koshirae [mounting]: brownish-tinged black lacquer scabbard with a large iron kojiri, the hilt bound with buff-coloured silk braid, the fuchi-kashira of dark-patinated shibuichi with shojo (drunken sprites) in copper, silver, and gold level inlay (style of Sozaemon Masanori), menuki of groups of leaves in shakudo with gold details, tsuba of round-cornered square form with geometric borders of stylized clouds or waves with dragons in gold and silver nunome zogan, the copper kozuka of Jurojin and Daikoku in high relief with gold details, the kogatana signed Tamba Kawachi Morikuni, kogai of yamagane with bundle of plum blossoms and twigs in coloured metal inlay.
Bequeathed by S. R. Turner
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1973-10-18) by Turner, S. R.
17th Century#
1600
-
1699
Hilt
composed of
silk braid
( buff)
Kojiri
composed of
iron
Scabbard
composed of
lacquer
Habaki
composed of
copper
silver
Tang
Blade
Accession number: O.5-1973
Primary reference Number: 163249
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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