NihontoWatchHira-zukuri, iori-mune. Ubu-nakago. Itame-hada mixed with moku. Ji-nie attaches, and chikei enters. Hamon is gunome choji-midare, nioiguchi is fukkura in ko-nie-deki, with long ashi, kinsuji, and sunagashira, appearing bright and clear. Real name is Goto Reisuke. Art name is Gyokusinsai. Pupil of Suzuki Masao and Suishinshi Masatsugu. Resident of Echigo Takada. Original province is Etchu. Accompanied by an aikuchi-koshirae with a desame kin-chirashi-nuri-saya. (Tokubetsu Hozon Token)
NihontoWatchOffered by Token-Net
As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
The Shinshintō revival
Around 1800 Suishinshi Masahide argued in his writings that the craft must return to the old masters’ methods: the fukkotō revival. His greatest successor Naotane worked convincingly in Bizen and Sōshū manners that had been dead for centuries.
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.
¥550,000