IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169107 accession number: MAR.ARM.O.157-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Shakudo tsuba. Wavy round, ishime. A small gold grasshopper-like-insect, resting on the (gold) stalk of a lily, with shakudo leaves, shibuichi blossoms, and other low grasses, gold ukibon. On the other side lilies and kikyo (one of the nana-kusa) blossoms, copper. Signature: Bunka sau hinoe tora kika kichinichi kore wo Kizamu Motohiro followed by Kakihan title: tsuba LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169107 CATEGORIES ------ category: sword fitting DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.3