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Tsuba: MAR.ARM.O.33-1912

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Current Location: In storage

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Squarish round iron tsuba: with raised rim. Wild geese flying in a shower of rain ukiboni, blue perforation for the kozuka filled with a gold plate nako-gaki. On one side seal signature gold within a square border of silver. Inscription and signature. Tobi Okayama ju Fujiwara Yasutaka Kitayu. Tachibana Tateomi kun no motome ni ogu kinkodo tsuchiya morichika cho.
Forged by Kinkodo Fujiwara Yasutaka of Okayama in Eastern Bizen, at request of Tachibana Tateomi Esq.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.8 cm
Width: 7.4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Materials used in production

plate Gold
Iron
Silver

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.ARM.O.33-1912
Primary reference Number: 168983
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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