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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatch新刀中上作、江戸時代の関を代表する優工、関鍛冶の頭領。丹波守藤原照門は新選組局長 近藤勇の佩刀として有名です。Tokubetsu Hozon Token Tnaba no Kami Terukado.His sword is famous as the sword carried by Isami Kondo, the head of Shinsengumi.【登録 Reggistration Code】平成15年9月9日 東京都第289579号【種別 Category】刀 Katana【長さ Blade length】68.6cm【反り Curvature】1.4cm【目釘穴 a rivet of a sword hilt】2個 Two【銘文 Signature and Date】(表)丹波守藤原照門【元幅 Width at the bottom part of blade】30.5mm【先幅 Width at the top]22.4mm【元重 Thickness at the bottom part of blade】7.5mm【先重 Thickness at the top】6.0mm【重量 Weight】刀身805gBlade Just 805g.【時代 Period】江戸時代初期 / The early of the Edo period.
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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.
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.
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