Muromachi turned sword making into an industry: the uchigatana rose with massed infantry warfare, Osafune and Seki produced bundle swords beside custom orders, and the Ming trade carried Japanese blades abroad by the tens of thousands.
This katana is signed Fujiwara Oshu no Kami Kanenori from Mino province, active during the late Muromachi period. It features a hira-zukuri iori-mune construction with an itame-hada mixed with masame, ji-nie, and chikei. The hamon is gunome-midare mixed with choji and togari-ba, with niju-ba, tobiyaki, kinsuji, and sunagashi, showing a bright and clear nioi-guchi. The blade comes with a shirasaya and a kuro-ishime-nuri uchigatana koshirae, and is accompanied by an NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon certificate.
NihontoWatchmei · Nara · Muromachi · nagasa 71.8cm · sori 1.9cm
Mino · around 1492-1501
Tōken Taikan top 60%
1 piece on the market now
The Muromachi period (1392 to 1573)
Muromachi turned sword making into an industry: the uchigatana rose with massed infantry warfare, Osafune and Seki produced bundle swords beside custom orders, and the Ming trade carried Japanese blades abroad by the tens of thousands.
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.
¥1,750,000
This katana is signed Fujiwara Oshu no Kami Kanenori from Mino province, active during the late Muromachi period. It features a hira-zukuri iori-mune construction with an itame-hada mixed with masame, ji-nie, and chikei. The hamon is gunome-midare mixed with choji and togari-ba, with niju-ba, tobiyaki, kinsuji, and sunagashi, showing a bright and clear nioi-guchi. The blade comes with a shirasaya and a kuro-ishime-nuri uchigatana koshirae, and is accompanied by an NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon certificate.
NihontoWatchmei · Nara · Muromachi · nagasa 71.8cm · sori 1.9cm
Mino · around 1492-1501
Tōken Taikan top 60%
1 piece on the market now
The Muromachi period (1392 to 1573)
Muromachi turned sword making into an industry: the uchigatana rose with massed infantry warfare, Osafune and Seki produced bundle swords beside custom orders, and the Ming trade carried Japanese blades abroad by the tens of thousands.
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.
¥1,750,000
