NihontoWatchCondition of the toshin With a gentle sugata featuring a slight sakizori and a high shinogi, the jitetsu is forged in itame. The hamon is a suguha with a clear habuchi in nioi-deki, and the boshi in the chu-kissaki is hakikake with a deep kaeri; it is a well-balanced, high-quality work with a good sugata. Although it is slightly short of 2 shaku 3 sun and has no hi carved, the lightweight toshin is a masterpiece that I would like you to use for iai. Koshirae Using modern Higo kanagu, a modern sukashi tsuba with large openings is fitted to a slightly slender tsuka, and it is housed in a new kuro-ishime saya; overall, it is a well-balanced koshirae. The old saya has some damage, but it will be included as a yasume-zaya.
NihontoWatchOffered by Ikeda Art
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Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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