After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchこれぞ古名刀！弊社推し刀。鞘は珍しい朱鞘付き。 働き盛んに入りふわっとした匂口の刃を光りに透かせば、地からは当時の時代の光景をうつすかのように感じさせてくれる趣深き御刀 現代を生きる私たちの目にその時代、歴史を感じさせてくれます。 鎌倉時代の刀工に付くだろうと、鑑定に出したものでございます。 審査確認をしたところ室町時代でも初期の応永頃（南北朝時代の次の年号で1394-1418年）の家次と見て良いコメントと、確かに審査の際に鎌倉時代でも票が入っていたとのこと。 見解が分かれる刀と想像されます。 審査当時、花押について資料等探せなかったのですが、令和７年８月に徳川家の花押を見る機会があり、この刀の花押と似ていることが判明しました。 審査後、半年間研ぎ師の方に預けており次の審査に再度出そうとしていた御刀でございます。（本阿弥系美術研磨済 無銘は研ぎで鑑定結果が変わること有り） 家次について 南北朝期の加賀に、友重や則重の高弟とされる真景が来住して所伝を伝え室町時代を通じて繁盛します。 家次は真景系に属し、国次の子。同国の橋詰(石川県白山市橋爪町)に住したことから橋詰派とも呼称されます。 姿の良い腰反りの姿を有し、青江の家次と同銘であることから加賀青江とも称されております。ちなみにこの青江はにっかり青江で有名な青江です。 にっかり青江について 名前の由来は、一説では、近江国（滋賀県）の武士がある晩歩いていると、若い女が、にっかり笑いながら近づいてきたため、怪しんで斬り捨てたところ、翌朝、石灯籠が真っ二つになって転がっていたという伝説からと言われます。 「にっかり青江」は、その後戦国武将で織田信長の家臣・丹羽長秀から豊臣秀吉に伝わり、子の豊臣秀頼から、最後に近江国大津藩主・京極家に渡りました。 刀剣ワールド様引用 弊社の資料（刀剣要覧）では確認できないのですがインターネット上では加州家次は業物として掲載されている所もあり。 美濃の刀について 「折れず曲がらず良く切れる」 美濃物は古来より業物としても非常に名高く、業物位列にも美濃鍛治の名が多く見られます。 その切れ味は鋼が削れるなど多くの逸話が存在し 切断銘の記録では最大で七ツ胴が存在します。 そのため美濃物が良く切れるというのは有名です。 本刀、名刀所以の気品さと覇気を漂わせます。ただならぬ雰囲気を醸し出す古名刀でございます！ 日本刀は日本の貴重な有形文化財でございます。 約６００年以上前の貴重な古刀です。 商品の状態 *刃切れ・刃こぼれ・曲がり・撓え・膨れ・匂い切れなどございません。 *時代による、汚れ、細かな擦れ傷,劣化等はご了承ください。写真を参考にしてください。
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Yamashiro-den · Kaga · around 1394-1428
Tōken Taikan top 37%
2 pieces on the market now
Yamashiro-den · Kaga
16 pieces on the market now
Among the provincial lineages of the Hokurikudo, the Fujishima school took its name and its base from the village of Fujishima in Kaga province, where Tomoshige stands as founder and the name he set down passed through several generations from the close of the Nanbokucho period across the Muromachi and on into the early-modern Shinto era. The members place the chronological anchor with care: the earliest firmly dated work is a tanto of Oei 2 (1395), and the NBTHK finds nothing among the surviving blades that goes back earlier than Nanbokucho. Old documentary tradition reads the first generation as a pupil of Rai Kunitoshi of Yamashiro, alternatively of Kashu Sanekage or Rai Toshimune, but the published sources doubt each reading in turn, finding no stylistic tie to Rai Kunitoshi and a chronological impossibility with Sanekage; judging from the make and the nakago finish, they settle by elimination toward the Yamato tradition, close to the Yamato Shikkake hand. A tachi held at Atsuta Shrine and a two-character ken read as the oldest surviving piece bracket the early end of the line. The recognition of the school lives in its jigane. The members agree on a board-grained itame that mixes in mokume and runs to nagare, standing somewhat open (hada-dachi), the surface gathering ji-nie and chikei, the steel carrying a distinct blackish cast named kan'a-iro and tied directly to the northern provinces as hokkoku-hada; a faint whitish shirake-utsuri rises quietly against this dark ground rather than a bright Bizen reflection. Over that ji the school tempers a gunome-midare into which box-shaped (hako-ba), pointed and angular (togariba) teeth enter together with notare and ko-notare, the ashi running rather long, the ha nie-laden with sunagashi sweeping it and kinsuji entering, small tobiyaki and muneyaki scattered here and there.
The NBTHK reads the feel of it as a make in which Bizen temperament and Mino flavor coexist, the boshi running straight or midare-komi into a ko-maru, often swept with hakikake or running to yakizume. The members also mark the short blades apart: on the tanto the hand can quiet to a ko-itame and a narrow hoso-suguha or low ko-gunome with ko-nie, the nioiguchi sometimes clouding to urumi, the boshi turning jizo-like or returning deep, this the simplest face of the Yamato base while the dark steel keeps its northern mark. To kantei a Fujishima blade the eye works the conjunction rather than any single trait: the standing dark ji read together with the box-and-pointed midare and the constant sunagashi names the school where a clean Bizen choji or a true Yamashiro ko-itame would not. The members note works read variously toward an Aoe air, toward Naoe Shizu and Sekishu Naotsuna, the Mino and northern lines the school sits between, kin in feel to the Etchu and Echizen smiths of the same region. Among the membership Tomoshige carries the name and the standing; Fujishiro rates the founder Chu-jo saku and places others among the middle ranks of the koto smiths, and the most highly regarded work falls in the Oei generation while the Muromachi work survives most often. The single finest piece is a great spear (o-mi-yari) signed Fujishima Tomoshige and carved with a sanko-ken and the deity-name Myoken Daibosatsu, which the published sources judge not merely the best spear of the school but one of the representative famous spears of its age; surviving naginata by the line are noted as rare, their ubu-nakago valued as dating evidence. Provenance gathers around named houses recorded in the blades themselves, an Oei katana descended in the Inaba daimyo house and a tanto recorded in Honma's inventory of the Imperial collection, heritage pieces in long-standing hands; yet the line is not among the unattainable names, and a Juyo Tomoshige remains a realistic if uncommon encounter for the patient collector, valued for the way a single dark-steeled blade carries the whole northern school in its ji. Learn more →
| Smith | Era | Designated |
|---|---|---|
| Tomoshige友重 | 1394-1428 | 15 |
| Tomoshige友重 | 1346-1370 | 5 |
| Tomoshige友重 | 1324-1326 | 5 |
| Fujishima藤島 | 1394-1428 | 4 |
| Yukimitsu行光 | 1340-1346 | 0 |
The Muromachi period (1392 to 1573)
After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
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