NihontoWatchTanto mei Tsugaru junin KUNITOSHI kore wo tsukuru Showa 55 koshin nen chushu (Formerly owned by the 45th Yokozuna Wakanohana I) <audio controls preload="auto"> <source src="clocktowerbell.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" /> </audio> Signed. Tsugaru junin KUNITOSHI kore wo tsukuru A former possession of the 45th Yokozuna Wakanohana I. In Showa 55, while instructing juniors and managing the Sumo Association as the Business Manager alongside Chairman Kasugano (former Yokozuna Tochinishiki), this tanto by Nigara Kunitoshi was gifted to him by a supporter from his hometown of Tsugaru. One wonders if he gazed upon this clear and dignified work to heal the fatigue of his strenuous duties. It is a single blade that was kept for a long time by the Hanada family, stored in a paulownia box (note). Nigara Kunitoshi, whose real name was Hiroshi, was born in Meiji 39 in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. He studied under Horii Toshihide, Kurihara Hikosaburo, and others, serving as an Army commissioned swordsmith before the war, where he received the Minister of the Army Award for his sharp and practically superior works. Possessing high skill, he produced works with clear suguha on precise jigane; after the war, he vigorously swung his hammer at his forge in Konyacho, Hirosaki City, and was a man of great ability who shone with numerous special prizes at the Shinsaku Meito Ten.
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3 on the market
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Aomori · around 1926-1989
3 pieces on the market now
Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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¥250,000