IDENTIFIERS
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id:	163213
accession number:	TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS1

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A mounted katana. Signed Sukemitsu.The mounting very fine.  Sugata: [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, saki-zori, extended point
Kitae: [forging pattern]: tight itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: large gunome with ‘kani-no-tsume’, tama, and sunagashi of nioi with ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: midare with deep return
Nakago [tang]: ubu, file marks are katte sagari on the omote and katte –agari on the ura, one hole, ha-agari kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]: single gold-clad copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: 60.6cm
Koshirae [w and worked in simulation of wood grain, the hilt bound with black silk cords consolidated with lacquer or like material, the metal fittings all matching, the long chape of shakudo nanako with gold-inlaid paulownia mon, the tsuba also of shajkudo nanako with paulownia mon arranged around the circumference and facing inwards, the kogai-hitsu plugged with gold covering, and a strip of shakudo inset into the kozuka-hitsu, with two gold-clad copper seppa the fuchi-kashi similarly with the paulownia mon, the menuki shakudo nanako roundels with minute inlaid gold paulownia mon around the edge, the kozuka with a shakudo nanako worn plate having three inlaid paulownia mon.
title:	Japanese weapons

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/163213





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1599
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1599
culture:	16th Century
culture:	Muromachi Period (1336-1573)

CREATORS
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maker: Sukemitsu