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Description: | Artist: Ikkei, maker;
Production Place: Japan; Date(s): 1800 - 1899; Classification(s): weapons, sword [H.12-1946]
Description: Sugata: [configuration]: hirazukuri, no curve,
Kitae: [forging pattern]: flowing itame
Hamon [tempering pattern]: suguha with variations of ko-nie
Boshi [tip]: pointed on the ura, and with kusure and ko-maru on the omote
Horimono [carving]: bohi from the bottom of the blade up to just before the monouchi
Nakago [tang]: ubu, funagata shape, file marks indistinct, one hole, deep ha-agari kurijiri tip
Habaki [collar]: double copper
Nagasa [length of blade]: blade 21.8cm, tang 7.6cm
Koshirae [mounting]: aikuchi type mounting with black lacquered scabbard with peonies and a butterly in gold makie, the matching fuchi and koiguchi silver with chrysanthemums in sunken relief, signed IKKEI, menuki of long-tailed birds in gilt copper , kaeri-tsuno and kojiri of silver engraved with with peonies and scrolling, two silver kashira with peafowl on rocks set into the scabbard just above the kojiri.
Overall length of mounting 34.8cm | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Ikkei weapons sword | Temporal: | name=Edo period; start=1800; end=1899 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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