This is a wakizashi by Sagami no Kami Fujiwara Kunitsuna, who resided in Echizen province and used Namban-tetsu (southern barbarian iron). The blade features a hira-zukuri-an-mune construction with an ubu-nakago, and a tight itame-hada mixed with mokume-hada, covered in fine nie and chikei. The hamon is gunome mixed with choji, with abundant nie, tobiyaki, nioi-ashi, and yo, showing kinsuji and sunagashi, with a bright and clear nioiguchi. It comes with a shirasaya and a koshirae featuring a polished ray skin tsuka and a black-lacquered scattered pattern saya.
NihontoWatchmei · Shimosaka · Edo · nagasa 54.2cm · sori 1.5cm
Echizen · around 1648-1652
Fujishiro Chu-jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 76%
2 pieces on the market now
Under the Tokugawa peace the daishō became a regulated uniform, and demand gathered in the castle towns, above all Edo itself. The craft split two ways: brilliant display work for connoisseurs, and tested blades whose cutting results were sometimes inlaid in gold.
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.
NBTHK official siteWithin one week of the item's arrival (cooling-off is possible within Japan only). For defects that differ from the purchase conditions, we will accept the return and refund the payment. For other cases such as overseas, we will consult separately.
This is a wakizashi by Sagami no Kami Fujiwara Kunitsuna, who resided in Echizen province and used Namban-tetsu (southern barbarian iron). The blade features a hira-zukuri-an-mune construction with an ubu-nakago, and a tight itame-hada mixed with mokume-hada, covered in fine nie and chikei. The hamon is gunome mixed with choji, with abundant nie, tobiyaki, nioi-ashi, and yo, showing kinsuji and sunagashi, with a bright and clear nioiguchi. It comes with a shirasaya and a koshirae featuring a polished ray skin tsuka and a black-lacquered scattered pattern saya.
NihontoWatchmei · Shimosaka · Edo · nagasa 54.2cm · sori 1.5cm
Echizen · around 1648-1652
Fujishiro Chu-jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 76%
2 pieces on the market now
Under the Tokugawa peace the daishō became a regulated uniform, and demand gathered in the castle towns, above all Edo itself. The craft split two ways: brilliant display work for connoisseurs, and tested blades whose cutting results were sometimes inlaid in gold.
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.
NBTHK official siteWithin one week of the item's arrival (cooling-off is possible within Japan only). For defects that differ from the purchase conditions, we will accept the return and refund the payment. For other cases such as overseas, we will consult separately.
