(Showa 41 Tokubetsu Kicho Token) It has arrived, it has arrived! Currently, with the "Hachioji Hachioji-kai"—a luxurious group of fellow Hachioji natives including celebrities such as Hiromi, Saburo Kitajima, Yumin, Roland, Fuwa-chan, Minami Takahashi, Haruna Iikubo, Funky Kato, Hiromu Takahashi, Takaya Kamikawa, and Hidetoshi Nishijima—Tokyo’s Hachioji is showing great vitality and is burning with excitement. From that very Hachioji comes a local sword lineage continuing since the Muromachi period. We have received a precious, famous wakizashi in hira-zukuri by the first generation Bushu-ju Yasushige, the head of the Shimohara smiths, a lineage that lasted 12 generations until the Meiji era. Around the Tenbun era of the Muromachi period (1543, 482 years ago), the first generation Yasushige was granted the character "Yasu" from Hojo Ujiyasu and changed his name to Yasushige. The first generation Yasushige studied sword-making under Muramasa of Ise, and the style inherited from Muramasa, such as the tanago-hara nakago, became a characteristic of Shimohara swords. Since ancient times, the Shimohara smiths, much like the Higo Dotanuki school of Kyushu or the Bungo Takada smiths, forged wazamono swords that were greatly favored by Sengoku period generals as practical weapons. This wakizashi displays a hira-zukuri wakizashi sugata with a difference between the moto-mihaba and saki-mihaba, and the nakago shows the tanago-hara shape of Muramasa. The jigane is forged in itame-hada; while the ji is difficult to see clearly due to the old togi (polish), it faintly reveals the gyorin-moku (fish-scale moku) spiral-shaped forged grain characteristic of Shimohara smiths. The hamon is a notare-style blade in nioi-deki with ko-nie, tempered to look as though it cuts extremely well. On this occasion, we received this from an old family who said, "We have grown old ourselves, and as some light sabi (rust) has appeared, please let it go at a low price so that a successor may take care of it." As a local sword of Tokyo—where the lineage has resided since the Muromachi period, not just Hachioji—this sword by Bushu-ju Yasushige is a precious work that must be cherished. We are offering it this time at an ultra-bargain price; please do enjoy it.
NihontoWatchBETA
¥190,000
Tracked across 81 dealers worldwide · price history · sold archive
Muromachi
41.3 cm
1 cm
2.97 cm
1.8 cm
Shitahara Yasushige康重
¥190,000
(Showa 41 Tokubetsu Kicho Token) It has arrived, it has arrived! Currently, with the "Hachioji Hachioji-kai"—a luxurious group of fellow Hachioji natives including celebrities such as Hiromi, Saburo Kitajima, Yumin, Roland, Fuwa-chan, Minami Takahashi, Haruna Iikubo, Funky Kato, Hiromu Takahashi, Takaya Kamikawa, and Hidetoshi Nishijima—Tokyo’s Hachioji is showing great vitality and is burning with excitement. From that very Hachioji comes a local sword lineage continuing since the Muromachi period. We have received a precious, famous wakizashi in hira-zukuri by the first generation Bushu-ju Yasushige, the head of the Shimohara smiths, a lineage that lasted 12 generations until the Meiji era. Around the Tenbun era of the Muromachi period (1543, 482 years ago), the first generation Yasushige was granted the character "Yasu" from Hojo Ujiyasu and changed his name to Yasushige. The first generation Yasushige studied sword-making under Muramasa of Ise, and the style inherited from Muramasa, such as the tanago-hara nakago, became a characteristic of Shimohara swords. Since ancient times, the Shimohara smiths, much like the Higo Dotanuki school of Kyushu or the Bungo Takada smiths, forged wazamono swords that were greatly favored by Sengoku period generals as practical weapons. This wakizashi displays a hira-zukuri wakizashi sugata with a difference between the moto-mihaba and saki-mihaba, and the nakago shows the tanago-hara shape of Muramasa. The jigane is forged in itame-hada; while the ji is difficult to see clearly due to the old togi (polish), it faintly reveals the gyorin-moku (fish-scale moku) spiral-shaped forged grain characteristic of Shimohara smiths. The hamon is a notare-style blade in nioi-deki with ko-nie, tempered to look as though it cuts extremely well. On this occasion, we received this from an old family who said, "We have grown old ourselves, and as some light sabi (rust) has appeared, please let it go at a low price so that a successor may take care of it." As a local sword of Tokyo—where the lineage has resided since the Muromachi period, not just Hachioji—this sword by Bushu-ju Yasushige is a precious work that must be cherished. We are offering it this time at an ultra-bargain price; please do enjoy it.
NihontoWatchBETA¥190,000
Tracked across 81 dealers worldwide · price history · sold archive
Muromachi
41.3 cm
1 cm
2.97 cm
1.8 cm
Shitahara Yasushige康重
¥190,000
