NihontoWatchStock number:TA-060225Paper(Certificate): [N.B.T.H.K] Hozon Token/Tokubetsu Hozon TosoguCountry・Era:Mino(Gifu)・Late Edo period about 1818~Blade length(Cutting edge): 17.3cmCurve(SORI): 0.0cmWidth at the hamachi(Moto-Haba): 2.04cmThickness at the Moto-Kasane: 0.70cmWide at the Kissaki(Saki-Haba): 1.80cmThickness at the Saki-Kasane: 0.55cmHabaki: One part, Silver foil HabakiSword tang(Nakago): Unaltered, Kattesagarii file patternRivet Holes(Mekugiana): 1Lenghth of Koshirae: about 35cmShape(Taihai): Unokubizukuri, IorimuneJigane(Hada): Ko-itameTemper patterns(Hamon): Gunome-midareTemper patterns in the point(Bohshi): Midarekomi then komaru round tipRegistration Card: Tokyo【Additional Information】寿命(としなが/じゅみょう)は、美濃国関を出身とする名門で、現存する最古の作刀は天文頃と云われています。江戸期に入っても系譜をつなぎ、丹後守寿命などをはじめとする一部の刀工は、隣国尾張へ移住し、尾張徳川家の求めに応じて鍛刀するなど、同一門は幕末まで繁栄をみます。元来、寿命は大変「寿命」が長いと言う掛詞で、いかにも目出度く縁起が良い名前故に、当時の武家間で進物や元服刀として大層珍重されていたことでも有名です。本刀体配は刃長が五寸七分半、身幅尋常で、重ねやや厚く、内反りとなる平造姿の短刀です。地鉄は良く詰んだ小板目肌で、地沸が付きます。刃文は互の目乱れで、箱がかった刃や尖り刃を交え、高低がついて華やかに乱れます。帽子はそのまま乱れ込み先小丸に返ります。茎は生ぶ、勝手下がり鑢目となります。拵は、桜皮塗で作られた誠に上品な一作が附いております。本作は、古来長寿を意味する「寿命」に鑑せられた御刀で、華麗な合口拵と合わせて、大変縁起の良い優品としてご紹介させていただきます。白鞘、銀着一重ハバキ、桜皮塗鞘合口短刀拵、保存刀剣鑑定書、特別保存刀装具鑑定書。
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The Shinshintō revival
Around 1800 Suishinshi Masahide argued in his writings that the craft must return to the old masters’ methods: the fukkotō revival. His greatest successor Naotane worked convincingly in Bizen and Sōshū manners that had been dead for centuries.
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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