IDENTIFIERS
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id:	169575
accession number:	O.11-1973

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 29 July 2026

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Brown iron tsuba for a katana, mokko (4 lobes) shaped and a maru (rounded) rim. 
It has an insect theme with realistic and high definition dragonfly, mantis and grass. The base has a non-polish ishime-ji (stone surface) texture and the relief a tekkotsu (iron bone) texture; there is gold-raised zogan (inlay) on the eyes and accents and silver zogan on the leaves. There are two small hitsu-ana (openings): one kozuka (utility knife) and one kogai (utility pin).

[Signed Katsuchisa of Mito. Dated autumn, 6th year of Ansei (1859). Decorated with copper gold alloy.]
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:	S. R. Turner
creditline: Bequeathed by S. R. Turner

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169575





CATEGORIES
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category: sword fitting

DATING
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creation date:	1859 - 1859
creation date earliest:	1859
creation date latest:	1859
culture:	19th Century