IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169487 accession number: HELM.O.285-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Blade. Iron tsuba, pierced and engraved with water plant leaves and tendrils within an almost circular rim. Fuchi and Kashira, shakudo nanako with embossed and gilt dragon. Gilt dragon menuki. Kodzuka shakudo nanako with gilt horsemen and attendants, and distant mountain. Back, plain. Blade signed. Black lacquer scabbard 'grained' and spangled with minute - plain black kurikata. title: Wakizashi LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. E. Helm creditline: Bequeathed by J. E. Helm STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169487 TECHNIQUES ---------- embossing CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons