NihontoWatchSwordsmith Okubo Kazuhira, whose real name was Towazu, was born in Showa 18. In Showa 36, he became a disciple of swordsmith Miyairi Akihira, who later became a Living National Treasure, and became independent after a training period of about 5 years. He took the "Kazu" from Towazu and the "Hira" from his master Akihira to take the swordsmith mei "Kazuhira". After entering and being selected for the 3rd Shinsaku Meito Ten in Showa 42, he won the Yusho-sho twice, the Shorei-sho twice, and the Doryoku-sho 7 times; in Heisei 10 he received the Zen Nihon Tosho-kai Riji-sho, in Heisei 11 the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Kaicho-sho, and in Heisei 12 the Kanzan-sho, and was certified as Mukansa in the same year; he was a master smith from whom even greater success was expected in the future, but he passed away at the young age of 59 on February 24, Heisei 15. This katana is a work modeled after Yamato-mono of the Kamakura period, with a suguba tempered with a bright and clear nioiguchi on a jigane with a masame-ke tone.
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Sagami · around 1926-1989
3 pieces on the market now
Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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¥660,000