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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchThis wakizashi is signed by Onizuka Yoshikuni, a swordsmith from Chikugo Yanagawa active in the early Edo period (around Genna era). Yoshikuni returned to Yanagawa with the lord Tachibana Muneshige and crafted swords for notable figures like Ikebe Hikozaemon, who was active in the Shimabara Rebellion, and the warrior Kōki Tōemon. The listing mentions another sword by Yoshikuni received Juyo Token designation.
NihontoWatchOffered by Choshuya
Chikugo · around 1624-1644
Tōken Taikan top 31%
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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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