After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
This is a long katana, mumei but attributed to Shiga-Seki Kanenobu, a skilled smith active around 1500 during the mid-Muromachi period. It features a robust shape with a slightly deep curvature and an elongated kissaki. The blade exhibits a fine jigane with itame and mokume patterns, covered in nie and chikei, and a pointed gunome midare hamon with sunagashi. It comes with both a shirasaya and a koshirae, and is accompanied by an NBTHK Hozon Certificate.
NihontoWatchmumei · Shiga-Seki · Muromachi · nagasa 74.4cm · sori 2.4cm
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The Muromachi period (1392 to 1573)
After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
Certifies a genuine blade worth preserving: a signature confirmed correct, or, if unsigned, an era, province, and school that the NBTHK can reliably identify.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
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¥650,000
