1592963852000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-163213 1747160627926 1714474792000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-163213 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163213 1eeebdb2-3dcc-3283-9b10-2e2cd9789067 5 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons Height cm 7 Width cm 6.8 Tsuba Length cm 60.6 Blade Length cm 82.4 Mounting Length cm 9.4 Kozuka Applied Arts 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. TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS1 1 accession number TEMP-AA-JAPANESEWEAPONS1 163213 priref 163213 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163213 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163213 Sukemitsu signature reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1500 1500 CE 1500 1500 1599 The blade by one of a number of smiths signing Sukemitsu in Osafune village of Bizen province during the 16th century. 1 1599 CE 1599 1599 maker reference agent-181516 adlib-agent-181516 fbd92c29-add3-383a-a923-8f14b1b8692b Sukemitsu The blade by one of a number of smiths signing Sukemitsu in Osafune village of Bizen province during the 16th century. reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-126979 adlib-term-126979 6c2530d3-d939-3a89-9024-f22b512ba5c9 Muromachi Period (1336-1573) reference term-132971 adlib-term-132971 212c72db-091d-3f66-9b81-0064c83a8444 literal Japan Japan country . Osafune reference term-126732 adlib-term-126732 adec56df-1846-3a6d-87aa-e3637685951f Japanese weapons category reference term-42208 adlib-term-42208 56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93 sword object name reference term-28848 adlib-term-28848 6d70e581-4c5d-3597-ae8f-171bda2fb098 mounting object name katana tsuba reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum

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Japanese weapons object OBJECT