IDENTIFIERS
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id:	168983
accession number:	MAR.ARM.O.33-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 29 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Squarish round iron tsuba: with raised rim. Wild geese flying in a shower of rain ukiboni, blue perforation for the kozuka filled with a gold plate nako-gaki. On one side seal signature gold within a square border of silver. Inscription and signature. Tobi Okayama ju Fujiwara Yasutaka Kitayu. Tachibana Tateomi kun no motome ni ogu kinkodo tsuchiya morichika cho. 
Forged by Kinkodo Fujiwara Yasutaka of Okayama in Eastern Bizen, at request of Tachibana Tateomi Esq.
title:	tsuba

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:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168983





CATEGORIES
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category: sword fitting

DATING
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DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.4