IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169490 accession number: HELM.O.288-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Blade. Steel processed engraved with snowstorm (habaki). Iron tsuba, with openwork sword and pole arm sheaths. Fuchi and kashira shakudo nanako with floral sprays enameled and gilt. Shakudo menuki, (pair) embossed with flowering chrysanthemum sprays partly gilt. The sheath is lacquered black with horizontal convex gadrooming, with 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/169490 CATEGORIES ------ category: weapons