This is a wakizashi made by Minryushi Toshizane in Bunsei 9th year (1826). The blade has a beautiful sugata with a wide mihaba and a gorgeous choji midare hamon. It comes with a Tokubetsu Hozon certificate and a shirasaya.
Certificate reading — 銘 眠龍子寿実 文政九年二月日
NihontoWatchmei · Kaei (1848-1854) · nagasa 47.5cm · sori 0.9cm
Inaba · around 1789-1801
Fujishiro Jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 49%
5 pieces on the market now
Under the Tokugawa peace the daishō became a regulated uniform, and demand gathered in the castle towns, above all Edo itself. The craft split two ways: brilliant display work for connoisseurs, and tested blades whose cutting results were sometimes inlaid in gold.
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 siteReturns accepted within 3 days of delivery for defective items or significant discrepancies; customer bears return shipping and bank fees.
This is a wakizashi made by Minryushi Toshizane in Bunsei 9th year (1826). The blade has a beautiful sugata with a wide mihaba and a gorgeous choji midare hamon. It comes with a Tokubetsu Hozon certificate and a shirasaya.
Certificate reading — 銘 眠龍子寿実 文政九年二月日
NihontoWatchmei · Kaei (1848-1854) · nagasa 47.5cm · sori 0.9cm
Inaba · around 1789-1801
Fujishiro Jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 49%
5 pieces on the market now
Under the Tokugawa peace the daishō became a regulated uniform, and demand gathered in the castle towns, above all Edo itself. The craft split two ways: brilliant display work for connoisseurs, and tested blades whose cutting results were sometimes inlaid in gold.
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 siteReturns accepted within 3 days of delivery for defective items or significant discrepancies; customer bears return shipping and bank fees.
