This is a mumei katana attributed to the Hokke school of Bingo province, dating to the Nanbokucho to early Muromachi period. It features a suguha hamon and itame hada, and comes with a tachi koshirae and shirasaya. The sword is accompanied by a NBTHK Hozon certificate.
mumei · Hokke · Nanbokucho · nagasa 73.5cm · sori 2.2cm















Yamato-den · Bingo
7 pieces on the market now
Bingo province, in the late Kamakura into the Nanbokuchō and Muromachi periods, hosted a cluster of workshops that the setsumei repeatedly set apart from the better-known Mihara line. The reference work Kokon Meizukushi Taizen is cited again and again as locating the Hokke (法華) line among the makers of Ashida District (葦田郡), a genealogy presented as distinct from the so-called Mihara tradition, with Sukekuni (助國) named as its founding progenitor. Learn more →
| Smith | Era | Designated |
|---|---|---|
| Shigeyasu重安 | 1362-1373 | 5 |
| Hokke Ichijo法華一乗 | 1394-1573 | 4 |
| Chikatsugu親次 | 1352-1356 | 1 |
| Kanetsugu金次 | 1532-1555 | 1 |
| Nobukane信兼 | 987-1596 | 1 |
If the item is not to your liking, please feel free to return it for any reason. Return shipping is the customer's responsibility. After the item arrives and we confirm it is in the same condition as at the time of sale, we transfer the refund to your designated account the same day. Purchases made at the store are outside the scope of cooling-off.
This is a mumei katana attributed to the Hokke school of Bingo province, dating to the Nanbokucho to early Muromachi period. It features a suguha hamon and itame hada, and comes with a tachi koshirae and shirasaya. The sword is accompanied by a NBTHK Hozon certificate.
mumei · Hokke · Nanbokucho · nagasa 73.5cm · sori 2.2cm















Yamato-den · Bingo
7 pieces on the market now
Bingo province, in the late Kamakura into the Nanbokuchō and Muromachi periods, hosted a cluster of workshops that the setsumei repeatedly set apart from the better-known Mihara line. The reference work Kokon Meizukushi Taizen is cited again and again as locating the Hokke (法華) line among the makers of Ashida District (葦田郡), a genealogy presented as distinct from the so-called Mihara tradition, with Sukekuni (助國) named as its founding progenitor. Learn more →
| Smith | Era | Designated |
|---|---|---|
| Shigeyasu重安 | 1362-1373 | 5 |
| Hokke Ichijo法華一乗 | 1394-1573 | 4 |
| Chikatsugu親次 | 1352-1356 | 1 |
| Kanetsugu金次 | 1532-1555 | 1 |
| Nobukane信兼 | 987-1596 | 1 |
If the item is not to your liking, please feel free to return it for any reason. Return shipping is the customer's responsibility. After the item arrives and we confirm it is in the same condition as at the time of sale, we transfer the refund to your designated account the same day. Purchases made at the store are outside the scope of cooling-off.