NihontoWatchIt has appeared, it has appeared; in an era when there were no people making tamahagane, the material for nihonto, after the Taisho era and there was no tamahagane for sword material, the three Kobayashi brother tosho of Izumo were fortunate to discover superb, high-quality tamahagane that had been left behind in the local mountains of Oku-izumo because the kera (iron blooms) made by tatara iron manufacturing in ancient times were too large to transport. Because they made swords with this abundant, superb tamahagane material, thankfully all of them are meito with high reputations, and all three brothers have been designated as Shimane-ken Juyo Mukei Bunkazai. The meito by the tosho Izumo no Kuni Ju Sadanaga that everyone has been waiting for has appeared. He is a master smith who won the Tokusho Kanzan-sho at the Shinsaku Meito-ten and received awards every year. This sword is a wonderful work that copies the famous Bizen no Kuni Osafune Kagemitsu of the Kamakura period. The sugata of this sword shows a Kamakura period sugata with a difference between the moto-mihaba and saki-mihaba, the jigane is a wonderful, very tightly packed ko-itame hada, and the hamon is a nioi-deki with ko-nie consisting of Osafune Kagemitsu's kataochi-gunome, gunome-choji, gunome, and tsureta-gunome-choji, with nioi-ashi entering deeply into the ha and many kinsuji appearing, brilliantly manifesting Bizen Osafune Kagemitsu of the Kamakura period here. Because the Osaka Gassan Sadakatsu tosho and Sadanaga's father Sadayoshi tosho were fellow students under the same master, all the brothers were given the character Sada, belonging to the Gassan school. This sword was specially commissioned by an old collector and has been cherished exactly as it was when it was completed; having enjoyed it sufficiently until now, we received it with the request to pass it on to a successor at a low price, so we are offering this sword by the famous and popular tosho Izumo no Kuni Ju Sadanaga at a special bargain price; please do enjoy it.
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As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Izumo · around 1989-2019
1 piece on the market now
The Kamakura period (1185 to 1333)
Nearly every later authority calls Kamakura the golden age of the sword: the first warrior government as patron, the great traditions at full strength simultaneously, and, tradition holds, the finest smiths of the realm rotating through Go-Toba’s court.
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¥580,000