IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163249
accession number:	O.5-1973

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 24 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
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
creditline: Bequeathed by S. R. Turner

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163249





TECHNIQUES
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inlay

CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1699
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1699
culture:	17th Century#


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Curved Edge
value: 1.7