15929638520001312637261000Standard Recordobject-163258170249432257015948543650001702494119843fitz-onlineadlib-object-163258https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/1632587b654581-5f5b-318f-9787-274218e4bc5b4referenceterm-86575adlib-term-865755649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9bweaponsHeightcm8.1Widthcm7.8TsubaLengthcm11.3TangLengthcm49.3BladeLengthcm74MountingWidthcm1.4CurvatureApplied ArtsSugata: [configuration]: shinogi zukuri, deep koshizori curve, small point
Kitae: [forging pattern]: not distinct due to rubbing, but the clean portion under the habaki looks like ko-itame with utsuri
Hamon [tempering pattern]: large gunome choji
Boshi [tip]: not visible
Horimono [carving]: none
Nakago [tang]: ubu, file marks indistinct, spurious group of three holes above the original hole, kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]:
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 49.3cm, tang 11.3cm, curvature 1.4cm Koshirae [mounting]: Daisho mounting, the scabbards of polished samé-gawa with black lacquer, the kozuka pocket has a band of shibuich with pine-covered mountains and approaching banner, on the wakizashi a kogai of shakudo nanako, possibly lacquered, with two riders speeding towards a raging river (Ujigawa story) in fine high releif inlay with shakudo, copper, silver, and gold, fuchi-kashira of similar design, the matching kozuka with the same two riders having arrived at the river, one having plunged in, signed on the back Goto Toshitaka (VIIIth generation), simlar but unsigned kozuka on the katana mounting, fuchi-kashira of the same motif with riders in high relief inlay of shakudo, copper, gold and silver, menuki similar on the wakizashi, and on the katana a rider, and a fugitive lady in a boat. The fuchi on the katana mounting inscribed OMORI EISHU. Round iron tsubas pierced and roundly carved with armoured figures in combat by the Ujigawa bridge with gold inlay signed BUSHU HIKONE JU MOGARASHI SOTEN, height 8.1, width 7.8cm. Overall length of wakizashi mounting 74cm, of the katana mounting 100.5cmHEL/ARM.273-19461accession numberHEL/ARM.273-1946163258priref163258urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163258https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/163258referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museum12001200CE120012001299possibly Kamakura period/13th century11299CE12991299previous attribution to this mmakerreferenceagent-181560adlib-agent-1815607f3e3a55-c8d3-35c0-b94c-a6f68645c52eYOSHITSUNE BIZENmakerreferenceagent-181559adlib-agent-18155999cb31c2-e14b-3772-9578-e8058616755aMASATSUNEZashi signed Masatsune. Labelled 'Blade Yoshitsune Bizen'. The wakizashi is signed Masatsune on the tachi side, and appears to be of the shape and size of the kodachi ( small tachi) of the Kamakura period (1185-1333).( the old label saying Yoshitsune is mistaken)referenceterm-127102adlib-term-127102d919979d-b797-31b0-ae1d-fb7e18d4929aKamakura period (1185-1392)referenceterm-107871adlib-term-10787178553be6-c810-30a1-9ba7-23f9a8a0094713th Centuryreferenceterm-42208adlib-term-4220856bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93swordobject namereferenceterm-28848adlib-term-288486d70e581-4c5d-3597-ae8f-171bda2fb098mountingobject namereferenceterm-126732adlib-term-126732adec56df-1846-3a6d-87aa-e3637685951fJapanese weaponscategorywakizashi1referenceobject-163257adlib-object-163257a0ab9286-55a7-33d1-a2b4-5b61046008dbHEL/ARM.272-1946referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceterm-13960adlib-term-13960bd4a87fc-9b1b-36a2-83c0-a7d82c3a5300Bizenreferenceterm-42208adlib-term-4220856bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93swordswordobject
OBJECT