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陀羅尼一派は、加賀国橋爪に住した家次や家永等の刀工含む「橋爪派」を源流にすると伝えます。陀羅尼一派にあっては、主な刀工として橘勝国、家平、家忠、吉家などが活躍しています。本品は、初代家平(四郎兵衛尉家平)、竹下儀兵衛尉正氏との合作の御刀。初代家平は、初代家忠の次男で、性を洲崎、斬れ味に優れ、業物に列せられます。正氏は、江戸中期 寛文頃に活動した同国出身の刀工であります。家平は、同時期の加賀刀工である賀州兼若、藤原家忠や清光などと共に代々前田家を支えた名工として知られます。 本刀体配は、刃長が一尺七寸強、身幅重ね尋常、反りやや浅めで中切っ先となります。鍛は、小板目肌に地沸微塵に厚く付き、頑強な地肌を呈します。焼刃は湾れを主調に互の目、丁子交じり、処々こずんで箱がかる感があり、刃沸よく付き、匂口明るく冴えます。帽子は、焼き深く、一枚風となって返ります。茎は生ぶ、筋違鑢で、刀工銘と年紀を刻します。拵は、赤銅金具を配し、柄が研出鮫、鞘が千段刻みとなるなど、時間をかけて丹念に製作されたことが伺える逸品が附いております。本作は加賀国(石川県)、陀羅尼派の初代家平(四郎兵衛尉家平)、同国正氏との合作の一口。力強い地鉄に、湾れ基調の刃を焼き、同一派の特徴現れた貴重な優刀です。白鞘、金着二重はばき、朱漆塗千段刻鞘脇差拵、特別保存刀剣鑑定書。
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Kaga · around 1661-1673
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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.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
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