This is a katana made by Choshu Nagahiro during the Shin-Shinto period. The blade features a gunome-chōji-midare hamon and a dense ko-itame hada. It comes with a koshirae.
Certificate reading — 銘 長州萩住永弘 文久二年八月日
NihontoWatchBETAmei · Shin-shinto
Suo · around 1865-1868
Tōken Taikan top 60%
6 pieces on the market now
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.
NBTHK official siteThis is a katana made by Choshu Nagahiro during the Shin-Shinto period. The blade features a gunome-chōji-midare hamon and a dense ko-itame hada. It comes with a koshirae.
Certificate reading — 銘 長州萩住永弘 文久二年八月日
NihontoWatchBETAmei · Shin-shinto
Suo · around 1865-1868
Tōken Taikan top 60%
6 pieces on the market now
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.
NBTHK official site
