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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchGinza Choshuya Tokyo-to Chuo-ku Ginza 3-10-4 Mon–Sat 9:30–17:30 Yoshisuke is a swordsmith representing Shimada in Suruga Province, a famous lineage that served the busho Imagawa clan during the Sengoku period. They continued to flourish after the Edo period, with the fifth generation Seibei Hirosuke active around the Keicho and Genna eras, and the lineage continued through the Kanei, Kanbun, Enpo, Kyoho, Enkyo, and Meiwa eras up to the eleventh generation.
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Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Suruga · around 1624-1644
Fujishiro Jo saku
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.
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