NihontoWatchReal name, Yakuwa Tadao. Born in Showa 19 (1944), residing in Arakawa-ku, Tokyo. The son and student of the Yasukuni tosho and Mukansa, Yakuwa Yasutake (his biological father). He is a master smith with numerous awards at the Shinsaku Meito Ten, including the Yusho-sho, Shorei-sho, and Doryoku-sho. Condition of the toshin A grand sugata exceeding 2 shaku 6 sun with a wide mihaba and no tapering toward the kissaki; the jigane is forged into a mirror-like muji-hada. The hamon is a skillfully tempered gunome with a deep nioiguchi and no irregularities, ending in a chu-kissaki with a boshi that has a hakikake style and a shallow kaeri. It is a fine work that appears to have been carefully forged, possessing both great length and weight. Koshirae The tsuka was made long to match the toshin, featuring a robust two-mekugi tsuka using modern silver fuchi-kashira. The tsuba is a slightly small, round maru-gata sukashi-tsuba, and the sword is housed in a cha-ishime saya with little damage. It is a complete set of koshirae that even includes a shirasaya and tsunagi.
NihontoWatchOffered by Ikeda Art
4 on the market
As written by the shop
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Musashi · around 1989-2019
4 pieces on the market now
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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