IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162538
accession number:	HELM.O.270-1946

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The blade broad, slightly curved, yori mune, medium kissaki, broad undulating hamon with two shadows, swirling around dots. Signed on the tang. Plain iron mokko tsuba decorated with chiselled lengthwise striations and one kozuka-hitsu, unsigned. Grip bound with black lacing, half lost and covered with modern tape. Fuchi kashira of shakudo decorated with gold shishi in a grassy landscape. Scabbard inlaid with mother of pearl and lacquered.  Menuki on the katana of gilt shishi, kozuka iron with three plovers and pines in copper and silver inlay, the kogatana signed CHIKUSHU MIIKE JU HIROMASA.
Part of a daisho with HELM.O.271-1946
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown


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/162538





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1652 - 1661
creation date earliest:	1652
creation date latest:	1661
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 96.8