NihontoWatch（特別保存刀装具鑑定書付） 驚くべき島津家伝来の大小の名刀が出ました。副状を書いた本阿弥光佐は喜三二、忠恕とも記した本阿弥光山系の幕末の6代目の当主です。大刀の大判15枚（小判150両）極めの作者は刀剣界では有名な「大食、上戸、大餅喰然共鍛冶下手也」「おおぐいで、おおざけのみで、おおくのもちを食べるがしかし刀を作るのは下手」と素晴らしく500年もの昔にウイットの有る銘を入れた刀を作って残している有名な備後三原正近の刀です。備後は現在の広島県三原です。本大刀は室町時代天文２年（1533年）（492年前）の年紀の有る貴重な刀です。本刀の姿は腰反りで元に踏ん張りが有り元身幅と先身幅の差の有る鎬が高く鎬地を削いだ利刀造で今だ健全です。地金は小板目肌良く詰み地には淡く映りを現し、刃紋は匂い出来に小沸の付いた互の目刃、小乱刃、先に行って直調の刃に刃縁に細く沸が良く付き如何にも良く切れるという刃を焼いています。小刀の大判20枚（小判200両）極めの脇差は有名な応永20年頃（1413年）（612年前）の応永備前の名工康光2字銘の名品です。姿はやや腰反りで元身幅広く先身幅も広い反りの有る豪快な良い姿を現し、地金は板目肌に鍛え杢目肌を鮮明に現し見事です、彫りは棒樋に添え樋を彫り上手です。刃紋は匂い出来に腰の開いた互の目刃を明るく焼き一部に大肌も有りますが名刀としてのご愛嬌でお許しください。拵えも島津家専属の抱え金工師の石黒政近の島津家の家紋の付いた豪華な大小拵えが本大小の刀に一層華を添えています。財）日本美術刀剣保保存協会の有力支部の支部長様が今まで大切に大切にしてこられた島津家伝来の貴重な大小拵えの付いた大小の名刀を特別に格安にてご提供いたします。是非お楽しみくださいませ。
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Yamato-den · Bingo · around 1532-1555
Fujishiro Jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 60%
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Yamato-den · Bingo
Phase: Sue-Mihara末三原· 1394–1596
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Where Ko-Mihara closes at the end of the Nanbokuchō period, Sue-Mihara takes up the Bingo tradition through the Muromachi era. The setsumei place the later production in the same Mihara orbit but spread across several named hands and affiliated branches: Kai Mihara Masamori, whose Muromachi katana often carry the long "Mihara-jū Kai _" signature; and the closely tied Hokke Ichijō line, whose founder Ichijō is traditionally called a son of Mihara Masaie and whose generations continued from the Ōei era into the late Muromachi. Within that affiliated group the corpus names Nobukane, Yoshitsugu, and the joint-signing Ichijō Morie and Ichijō Moriyuki, working at Kusado (Kusado Sengen) in Bingo. Several setsumei stress that the Hokke Ichijō reckoning is genealogically uncertain, said variously to branch from Mihara or from Kokubunji, which marks the looser, more diffuse character of the school in its later chapter. The later workmanship the setsumei describe keeps the Yamato base of the early school but states it in a coarser, more standing-grain register. The forging remains itame mixed with mokume and flowing grain (nagare), now repeatedly noted as hada-dachi (standing grain) and, in one tantō, "somewhat coarse" with the steel turning masame toward the mune. A whitish cast persists: shirake-utsuri is singled out in the Ōei Nobukane tantō, while other blades show only a faint or shadowy utsuri-like effect and a darkish, "metallic" steel color.
The tempering moves from the school's quiet suguha toward more open midare: a chū-suguha varied with small gunome, ko-gunome run together into continuous midare, gunome mixed with pointed (togari) elements, and edges showing hotsure, sunagashi, and a subdued (shizumi) nioiguchi. The sugata follows Muromachi form, with sakizori added to the curve and a chū-kissaki. Against the refined early Ko-Mihara, with its tighter nioiguchi and restrained finish, these later blades read as looser and plainer, the Yamato-den footing now worn shallower; the corpus is thin, so this contrast rests on the handful of traits the setsumei actually record rather than on a full stylistic survey. For kantei, the setsumei separate Sue-Mihara from Ko-Mihara chiefly by the loosening of the ground and the opening of the temper: standing, occasionally coarse itame; faint or merely shadowy utsuri rather than a clear cast; and gunome-laced midare in place of quiet suguha. Where the Hokke Ichijō hand is present, the setsumei note one consistent point of difference, that its nie in both ji and ha runs a step stronger than ordinary Mihara, with the bōshi becoming pointed and turning back deeply. Named smiths supply the anchors: Masamori for the two-character Kai Mihara rarity against his usual long signatures, and the Ichijō hands, including a mumei katana appraised den Ichijō under a Hon'ami Kōchū origami. The dated works, in the Ōei and Chōroku eras, carry the documentary weight here, fixing the later phase to Muromachi Bingo and to the Kusado smiths of Kusado Sengen. Learn more →
| Smith | Era | Designated |
|---|---|---|
| Masamune正宗 | 1469-1487 | 0 |
| Masaoki正興 | 1521-1528 | 0 |
| Nagashige長重 | 1487-1489 | 0 |
| Kaneyasu兼安 | 1469-1487 | 0 |
| Takakane高兼 | 1504-1521 | 0 |
Yamato in the Muromachi period
The monasteries that had sustained Yamato lost ground through the Muromachi period, and the schools thinned with them; Sue-Tegai kept the old masame manner alive in quantity. The burning of Tōdaiji’s Great Buddha hall in 1567 closed the temple age.
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