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A MASAFUSA KATANA (薩州住藤原正房)
売却済
世界81社の刀剣商を横断追跡 · 価格履歴 · 売却アーカイブ
仕様
長さ
71.1 cm
反り
1.6 cm
元幅
3.1 cm
先幅
2.1 cm
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Skip to content ITEM# UJKA516 – Sold A Masafusa Katana (薩州住藤原正房) This is an exceptional signed and dated katana by Sandai (third generation) Masafusa of Satsuma province, forged on an auspicious day in the first month of 1727 – mid-Edo, yet made in the one domain that never set down its sword. While the rest of Japan settled into the long Tokugawa peace, Satsuma kept a wartime footing for the whole period, its swordsmen schooled in the uncompromising Jigen-ryû and its smiths forging for warriors rather than for show. Masafusa stood among the leading figures of the Satsuma-Shintô tradition, a school born when Maruta Bingo no Kami Ujifusa carried Mino-den technique south during the Tenshô era and married it to the raw intensity of Sôshû-den. The blade wears that fierce inheritance openly. A well-forged nashiji-hada shows shirake-utsuri drifting through the steel, and above it runs a vibrant gunome-midare charged with vigorous nie set like rows of prayer beads. Sweeping sunagashi and pointed togari – the latter a clear nod to the school’s Mino-den roots – run alongside the wildly thick imozuru , the ‘potato vine’ activity that is the regional fingerprint of Satsuma work. The whole hamon stands in a thick, bright nie-deki that catches the light like frost: a blade made for cutting, not for the cabinet, and rightly certified NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon. This katana was once the property of Kenshiro Abbe , one of the foremost martial artists of the twentieth century – holder of 8th dan in judo, 6th in aikido and 6th in kendo, and the man who brought aikido to Britain in 1955. The sword was found for him by his close friend Nobuo Ogasawara , former curator of the Tokyo National Museum and one of the great nihontô scholars of his generation. You can see exactly why Ogasawara chose this blade for Abbe-sensei. A sword from Japan’s most uncompromisingly martial province, in the hands of a man who dedicated his entire life to the martial arts – honestly, how could it have been anythi
NihontoWatchBETA売却済
世界81社の刀剣商を横断追跡 · 価格履歴 · 売却アーカイブ
71.1 cm
1.6 cm
3.1 cm
2.1 cm
Skip to content ITEM# UJKA516 – Sold A Masafusa Katana (薩州住藤原正房) This is an exceptional signed and dated katana by Sandai (third generation) Masafusa of Satsuma province, forged on an auspicious day in the first month of 1727 – mid-Edo, yet made in the one domain that never set down its sword. While the rest of Japan settled into the long Tokugawa peace, Satsuma kept a wartime footing for the whole period, its swordsmen schooled in the uncompromising Jigen-ryû and its smiths forging for warriors rather than for show. Masafusa stood among the leading figures of the Satsuma-Shintô tradition, a school born when Maruta Bingo no Kami Ujifusa carried Mino-den technique south during the Tenshô era and married it to the raw intensity of Sôshû-den. The blade wears that fierce inheritance openly. A well-forged nashiji-hada shows shirake-utsuri drifting through the steel, and above it runs a vibrant gunome-midare charged with vigorous nie set like rows of prayer beads. Sweeping sunagashi and pointed togari – the latter a clear nod to the school’s Mino-den roots – run alongside the wildly thick imozuru , the ‘potato vine’ activity that is the regional fingerprint of Satsuma work. The whole hamon stands in a thick, bright nie-deki that catches the light like frost: a blade made for cutting, not for the cabinet, and rightly certified NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon. This katana was once the property of Kenshiro Abbe , one of the foremost martial artists of the twentieth century – holder of 8th dan in judo, 6th in aikido and 6th in kendo, and the man who brought aikido to Britain in 1955. The sword was found for him by his close friend Nobuo Ogasawara , former curator of the Tokyo National Museum and one of the great nihontô scholars of his generation. You can see exactly why Ogasawara chose this blade for Abbe-sensei. A sword from Japan’s most uncompromisingly martial province, in the hands of a man who dedicated his entire life to the martial arts – honestly, how could it have been anythi
NihontoWatchBETA売却済
世界81社の刀剣商を横断追跡 · 価格履歴 · 売却アーカイブ
71.1 cm
1.6 cm
3.1 cm
2.1 cm
