NihontoWatchWakizashi in Shirasaya(NBTHK Hozon Token) We divide works in to Saijo Saku, Jyojyo Saku, Jyo Saku,and Regular Saku. This piece is ranked as Jyojyo Saku for Masamine. Shape: long and wide tanto with Mitsumune carved with two lines of hi. Jigane: Koitame mixed with Komoku covered with fine chikei and jinie. Hamon: Rounded gunomemidare with fine nie making sunagashi. Nioikuchi is thick and bright. Features: Sumitani Masamine was a swordsmith from Ishikawa Prefecture, born in 1921. After graduating from Ritsumeikan University in 1941, he entered the Ritsumeikan Japanese Sword Forging Research Institute, where he studied under Sakurai Masayuki. He later became independent and established his own Japanese sword forging workshop, Sanryutei, in his hometown of Matto City, Ishikawa Prefecture, where he produced many works. He received numerous awards, including the prestigious Masamune Prize, and was designated a Living National Treasure in 1981. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 77. This work is a fine, slightly elongated tanto characteristic of Masamine, with abundant nie in both the ji and ha, giving the blade a bright and clear appearance. NBTHK Hozon Certificate to be issued in December Aoi-Art estimation Paper whole Oshigata
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Ishikawa · around 1921-1998
7 pieces on the market now
Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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.
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