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.
A high-ranking disciple of Miyaguchi Ikkansai Toshihiro. A wakizashi with Fudomyoou carved on the omote and a dragon on the ura. The freshly forged blade has just been finished. Modern sword Isobe Ikkansai Mitsuhiro. He is Apprentice of Miyaguchi Ikkansai Toshihiro. The carving of blade is Fudomyoou and Dragon. Also, This sword has just been completed and almost new. "taihei style" Hira-zukuri, iori-mune, wide mihaba and jinjo kasane, slight sori and the fukura is moderately withered. The nakago is ubu with sujikai yasurime, and the nakago-jiri is shallow kurijiri. "horimono carving" Sashi-omote: Fudomyoou, sashi-ura: dragon. "jigane jigane" The jigane is a refined ko-itame hada that is well-tightened, with jinie. "hamon hamon" The hamon is Soshu-den style gunome, with fine nie on the ha-buchi. The boshi is midare-komi with a pointed kaeri. "tokucho detailed" Isobe Ikkansai Mitsuhiro, real name Isobe Mitsuji, born Taisho 4 September 10, made swords in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. His teacher was Miyaguchi Ikkansai Toshihiro; he succeeded to the Ikkansai name following Miyaguchi Ikkansai Tsunehiro and was granted the character Hiro. He was a member of the All Japan Swordsmith Association and received many prizes at the New Sword Exhibition. As this wakizashi was obtained as a freshly forged blade (with horimono) in shirasaya, the horimono was finished and the blade was polished. The registration is old, but it is the same as a new sword. Please take this opportunity to add it to your collection. "koshirae koshirae" habaki (habaki): Solid silver single-layer koshi-yujo. saya (saya): Shirasaya. "toshin no jotai condition of blade" Togi: It has just been polished. Kizu: There are no kizu that would be considered defects.
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As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Shizuoka · around 1926-1989
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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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