IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162540
accession number:	HELM.ARM.271.1946

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The blade is slightly curved, with a large kissaki, yori mune, a fuller running along the back, deep gunome hamon of undulating form. A fuller at the back of the blade runs the full length of the tang. Silvered copper habaki. Iron sukashi tsuba, fretted with twisted ears of wheat. Grip bound with black lacing, almost all lost and covered with modern tape.  Fuchi (kashira lost) of shakudo decorated with gold shishi in a grassy landscape. Scabbard inlaid with mother of pearl and lacquered. Kozuka hilt of iron inlaid with three cedars in copper and silver, three birds in silver and gilt copper.
title:	short sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unclear


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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162540


SUBJECTS
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Part of a daisho, see 271



CATEGORIES
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category: weapon

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1599
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1599
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: mm
value: 650