IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169130 accession number: MAR.ARM.O.180-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Squarish iron tsuba with rounded corners. With a chocolate colored patina. Forms shaped like ogi and uchiwa (fans) and decorated with enamel and gold with birds and blossoms. One ogi shows the figure of Fukuroku ju shakudo gilt. These fan shapes are in relief from a surface which is further decorated with a stream, shibuichi or silver zogan. Similar treatment on the other side. Signature: Hirata Karihina 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/169130 TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding TECHNIQUES ---------- relief CATEGORIES ------ category: sword fitting DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.8