NihontoWatchThis work, Sendai-ju Hakuryushi Fujiwara Nagashige, is Tashiro Tarota, the 11th generation of the Tashiro Nagashige line at the end of the Edo period, who represents the culmination of the Sendai Tashiro Nagashige family that continued from the early Edo period. Born in Tenpo 4 and died in Taisho 10 (1833-1922). He was the son of the 10th generation Nagatoshi and used the go Hakuryushi. The 1st generation Tashiro Nagashige was Tashiro Kyuemon Nagatoshi of the Kiyonobu school in his home province of Mino, who moved to Sendai around Keicho, and the lineage continued for 11 generations until the Meiji era. This work was made in Keio 4 (1868), during the mature period of the 11th generation Nagashige at age 55. The jigane is a refined ko-itame, and the hamon is a chu-suguba that becomes slightly midare around the monouchi with ko-nie and multiple kuichigai-ba. It has a ubu nakago and presents a graceful sugata with a smallish chu-kissaki. It passed the Tokubetsu Hozon Token shinsa in 2026.
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The Shinshintō revival
Around 1800 Suishinshi Masahide argued in his writings that the craft must return to the old masters’ methods: the fukkotō revival. His greatest successor Naotane worked convincingly in Bizen and Sōshū manners that had been dead for centuries.
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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¥650,000