IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162524
accession number:	HEN.M.468.1933

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Sixteen plate skull of russet iron with small rivets with chrysanthemum washers (zaboshi) and roped flanges to the plates. The front, side and rear plates are broad, and have applied sword blades three at the front, one at the rear and sides, in copper alloy. At the front is a peak covered in stencilled leather bordered with a gilt copper fukurin. There is a chiselled brass holder for a maedate and kuwagata, with horns of gilt iron. At the sides are sprung lugs for further crest fittings. There is a shikoro of four plates, the top one of iron, the lower three of leather, lacquered black, kebiki laced with blue silk. At the front at either side the upper plate of the shikoro widens into a fukigayeshi, covered in stencilled leather, with a hishi mon of three diamons in blackened silver.
title:	helmet

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.S. Henderson

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162524


SUBJECTS
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helmet signed Tsurume Munetoshi from Mene collection Paris



CATEGORIES
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category: armour

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1899
culture:	19th Century
culture:	Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: mm
value: 340

dimension: Height
units: mm
value: 345

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 2640

dimension: Width
units: mm
value: 370