Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatch壽格(としのり)は延享三年鳥取城下に生まれ、名を濱部権左衛門という。藤掛甚六兼先に学び、初銘を兼賀と切り、後に壽格と改銘し、天明五年に美濃守を受領している。寛政八年には幕府の蔵刀、刀剣書の調査を拝命しており、嫡子眠龍子壽實を従え江戸に出て見聞を広めると共に技術を磨き、江戸後期の幕政、藩政改革期に優品を鍛え上げた。 この刀は、松平定信の寛政の改革の最中に、古名刀、就中、備中青江物を範に精鍛されたとみられる一振。両区深く付いて重ね厚く、反りを控えて鋒が猪首ごころの端正な姿。やや広く造り込まれた鎬地は細かな柾肌、平地は無類に詰んだ小板目に錬り鍛えられ、小粒の地沸が付いて鉄色が明るい。直刃の刃文は穏やかな小足が無数に入り、小沸付いて刃縁きっぱりと明るく、刃中も透明。帽子は小丸に返る。茎の保存状態は良好で、茎尻は刃上がりの剣形にきっちりと仕立てられ、太鑚の銘字が鮮やかに切られている。 附帯する拵は、金箔を敷き詰めた上に萩繋模様を唐草風に描き、さらに深みのある透漆で仕上げた鞘に、鐔、縁頭、目貫は、源平合戦宇治川先陣図。河中へと進みかけた梶原景季が、佐々木高綱の「梶原殿、馬の腹帯が緩んでおりますぞ」の一言に馬の歩みを止めた、その刹那に佐々木が一気に馬を走らせて一番乗りを果たしたという場面。遅れをとれば即自害の覚悟を胸に秘めていたという、後代の武士が戒めとした有名な説話が活写されている。
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Inaba · around 1781-1789
Fujishiro Jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 31%
The Edo period (1615 to 1868)
Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
A Hozon-certified blade judged to show notably superior workmanship and a better state of preservation. The bar is higher: re-tempered blades and most unsigned Muromachi/Edo works are excluded.
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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