IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169128
accession number:	MAR.ARM.O.178-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Squarish iron tsuba with rounded corners. Edge nunome zogan; ishime. View, shibuichi, through a marumado showing the top of a silver plum tree, some shakudo buds flying, all in the light of the gold moon breaking through the clouds. Also a square shibuichi medallion decorated with flowers, in shakudo ,silver and gold. On the other side shakudo fan shaped (uyi gata) deeply inset, with peony flowers, gilt ukibon, also deeply unset hyotan gata gold and with the artists name engraved on it. Signature: Tsuchiya Haruchika
title:	tsuba

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
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169128





TECHNIQUES
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gilding

CATEGORIES
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category: sword fitting



DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7