Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatch上作・業物刀工の長綱は別名「聾長綱」と言い近江守忠綱門。自身、耳が悪かったため自ら聾と銘切りした刀もある。作刀数は他の大阪物に比べると少なめで、数をあまり見ない。本作、二尺三寸強の長さに、研ぎ減りの少ない健全な一振。匂口の締まった直刃は小さめの帽子まで破綻なく焼き、小足や二重刃などが繊細に働いている。小板目肌には所々杢目が交じり、全体に詰んで疵気もない。本作は彫りの名人と言われる一竿子忠綱の彫りに極めて近い真の龍が圧巻。程よく鱗が立った龍は玉を追って動きがある。裏には不動明王を表す三鈷剣が彫られ、表裏ともに状態よく残っている。古研ぎながら研磨の必要はない。白鞘入り。保存刀剣鑑定書附。
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Settsu · around 1661-1673
Fujishiro Jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 37%
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The Edo period (1615 to 1868)
Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
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