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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchTokubetsu KityotokenKiyomitsu with Koshirae and Shirosaya加州清光は、藤島友重を祖とし、加賀国で室町中期から江戸後期まで続いた刀工一派であり、新選組・沖田総司の愛刀としても有名です。本作は永禄頃の清光による作で、もとは二尺六寸ほどの太刀を江戸時代に磨り上げたものです。小板目がよく詰み、地沸がついた鍛えに、小沸出来の互の目を焼いた優品で、目立つ欠点もなく、コンディションは良好です。拵には上質な金具が用いられており、特に室町後期の平安城鍔は象嵌の抜けもなく、大きな見どころとなっています。刀身・拵ともに状態の良い、魅力ある加州清光です。Kashu Kiyomitsu was a school of swordsmiths said to have originated with Fujishima Tomoshige, and continued in Kaga Province from the mid-Muromachi period through the late Edo period. It is also well known as the maker of the beloved sword of Okita Soji of the Shinsengumi.This work was made by Kiyomitsu around the Eiroku era. It was originally a tachi of approximately 2 shaku 6 sun, later shortened during the Edo period. The blade displays a finely packed ko-itame grain with ji-nie, and a gunome hamon in ko-nie-deki. It is an excellent work, with no notable flaws and in fine condition.The koshirae is fitted with high-quality mountings. In particular, the late-Muromachi-period Heianjō tsuba is a major highlight, retaining its inlay without loss. Both the blade and koshirae are in fine condition, making this an attractive example of Kashu Kiyomitsu.★我公司可以合法地将日本刀运送到中国。【登録 Reggistration Code】昭和30年7月8日 神奈川県第18802号【種別 Category】刀 Katana【長さ Blade length】二尺三寸二分(70.3cm)【反り Curvature】五分(1.5cm)【目釘穴 a rivet of a sword hilt】3個 Three【銘文 Signature and Date】(表)清光【元幅 Width at the bottom part of blade】27.1mm【先幅 Width at the top]19.5mm【元重 Thickness at the bottom part of blade】6.3mm【先重 Thickness at the top】4.1mm【重量 Weight】刀身651g 抜身940g / Blade Just 651g With out saya 940g.【時代 Period】江戸時代初期 / Early of Edo period.
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Yamashiro-den · Kaga · around 1558-1570
Yamashiro-den · Kaga
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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 |
| Fujishima藤島 | 1394-1428 | 4 |
| Tomoshige友重 | 1324-1326 | 5 |
| Yukimitsu行光 | 1340-1346 | 0 |
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.
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