IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169086
accession number:	MAR.ARM.O.136-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Squarish iron tsuba, deeply hammered surface. A serpent, sentokudo, wriggles about on both surfaces, pursuing a frog, ukibon, which in turn is after a snail, shibuichi, on the other side. The scene corresponds with Japanese idea - the serpent is stronger than the fog, the frog than the snail and the snail than the serpent. For the serpent always shirks contact with the snail. In front of the frog is a leaf of the maiden-hair tree, copper. Signature: Ichiyosai
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/169086





CATEGORIES
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category: sword fitting



DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 8