NihontoWatchHira-zukuri, iori-mune. Ubu-nakago. Ko-itame-hada mixed with moku, ji-nie appears, chikei enters. Hamon is gunome-midare mixed with choji. Active tobiyaki appears, becoming hitatsura-style. Nioiguchi is soft, the ha-chu has frequent hataraki, and it is bright and clear. A suken is carved on the omote, and a bonji on the ura. A Jumyo from the transition between koto and shinto, with a koto niji-mei. The ji and ha are healthy. Excellent workmanship. Accompanied by a kuro-ro-nuri-zaya wakizashi koshirae. (Tokubetsu Hozon Token)
NihontoWatchOffered by Token-Net
As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Mino-den · Mino · around 1573-1592
Tōken Taikan top 76%
1 piece on the market now
Mino-den · Mino
9 pieces on the market now
Mino in the Momoyama period
Unification closed the mass market, and Seki’s smiths moved to where the new money was: the Mishina line to Kyōto with court titles, Daidō smiths to castle towns across the provinces. Mino became the great technical ancestor of the Shintō age.
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.
¥680,000