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折り畳まれた扇の形を模した拵。柄鞘の扇の親骨に当たる部分には表裏連 続するように若竹図が金粉溜塗で描かれ、しかも中骨部分に陰影が付けられた、まさに扇のよう。 収められている短刀は、江戸前期寛文頃の美濃刀工壽命の作。元来守り刀としてこのような拵に 収めるべく、身幅を控えた鋭利な造り込みとなっている。
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Mino-den · Mino · around 1661-1673
Fujishiro Chu saku · Tōken Taikan top 95%
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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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