This listing features a pair of large shakudo menuki depicting shishi, measuring 5.1 and 5.5 cm long. They are in mint condition and come with an NTHK paper dated 2010, attributing them to Kyo Kanagu-shi from the early Edo period. The menuki are crafted from shakudo material with a takabori (high relief) design.
NihontoWatch
Kyo-kanagushi School
Edo
Signed
NTHK (NTHK)
Kinko · Yamashiro
The NTHK’s principal certificate, issued for a fitting of considerable quality. It confirms a genuine signature, or, for an unsigned (mumei) work, records the judges’ attribution to a smith or school. The paper carries a detailed worksheet with a numerical point score.
The NTHK (Nihon Tōken Hozon Kai, the Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword) is the oldest of Japan’s sword-appraisal bodies, founded in 1910, decades before the NBTHK. After the death of its long-serving head it divided into two successor societies, the NTHK and the NTHK-NPO, both of which continue to hold shinsa. NTHK certificates are known for a detailed worksheet that records a numerical point score alongside the judges’ written opinion, and the society is especially respected for its attribution of unsigned (mumei) work.
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