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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchThe origins of the Mizuta school in Bitchu province are said to be either from the descendants of Ko-Aoe Tametsugu, or alternatively, founded by Kunishige who migrated from Bingo province during the late Muromachi period. This school flourished greatly from the late Muromachi period through the mid-Edo period, and its lineage is divided into two branches: the Otsuki school founded by Otsuki Yogoro Kunishige, and the Kono school represented by Tameie. The Kunishige who produced this work was a master smith succeeding the lineage of the Mizuta Otsuki school, also known as Edo Mizuta, and he produced many masterpieces of jumonji-yari. This jumonji-yari has a round kera-kubi, and both the slender, extending hosaki and the kama-bu feature a slight ryugo, boasting a graceful and well-proportioned sugata overall. The jigane is a well-wrought ko-itame with masame-nagare, covered in ji-nie with chikei interspersed, showing a clear, slightly hada-datsu kitae. The hamon is a skillfully tempered suguha, and the clarity of the smith is felt in the sugata, jigane, and hamon alike; it is an excellent piece that combines the spirit of a weapon with the dignity of fine art and craft.
NihontoWatchOffered by Toushin
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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.
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