IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169487
accession number:	HELM.O.285-1946

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Blade. Iron tsuba, pierced and engraved with water plant leaves and tendrils within an almost circular rim. Fuchi and Kashira, shakudo nanako with embossed and gilt dragon. Gilt dragon menuki. Kodzuka shakudo nanako with gilt horsemen and attendants, and distant mountain. Back, plain.
Blade signed.  Black lacquer scabbard 'grained' and spangled with minute - plain black kurikata.
title:	Wakizashi

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:	J. E. Helm
creditline: Bequeathed by J. E. Helm

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169487





TECHNIQUES
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embossing

CATEGORIES
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category: weapons