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堀井胤吉は、1821年（文政4年）近江国の生まれ。 1844年（弘化元年）に月山貞吉に、 そして1851年（嘉永4年）には大慶直胤に入門して修業し、刀工としての腕を磨きました。 1862年（文久2年）、膳所藩本多家の家老：村松静寛の支援により同藩に仕え、その後、明治維新の廃刀令により苦難の道を歩むが、1894年（明治27年）の「明治天皇ご大婚二十五年祝典」。そこに短刀一振りを奉献したのです。 さらに翌年には宮内省に太刀二振りを献上。明治28年11月に宮内省御用刀匠を拝命し、堀井家一門の基礎を築いた。 胤吉は、同時代に活躍していた宮本包則と月山貞一と並ぶほど、公的な業績を上げたと言えます。
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Musashi · around 1848-1854
Fujishiro Chu-jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 76%
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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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