NihontoWatchIt has appeared, it has appeared, a set of daisho masterpiece swords by the swordsmith Chikushu Ju Muneshige has appeared. The swordsmith Muneshige was a fine collaborator of the famous Mukansa swordsmith So Tsutomu, and due to registration certificate circumstances, these are masterpiece daisho swords produced with So Tsutomu as the master smith. The master So Tsutomu was born in Showa 2 and is exceedingly famous as a contemporary master craftsman who has won numerous special prizes in the Shinsaku Meito Ten competitions, including the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Mainichi Shimbun Award, the Kunzan Award, the Chairman's Award, and others. Coming from a lineage of swordsmiths for generations, he built a vast fortune through the production of whale knives with outstanding sharpness that could cut through frozen whales or steaming whales in the harsh conditions of Antarctic whaling with a single blow; using that wealth, he unsparingly used top-grade tamahagane to create masterpiece swords that are wonderful for appreciation and also possess the outstanding sharpness that is the original mission of the nihonto. This daisho consists of swords that So Tsutomu served as the master for, and his apprentices swung the mukozuchi, pouring their heart and soul into the creation. Due to registration circumstances, they bear the mei of So Tsutomu's junior fellow student Muneshige, but they are masterpiece daisho swords made with the full strength of the So school, copying the Bakumatsu master Minamoto Kiyomaro. The sugata shows the grand form of Minamoto Kiyomaro with a wide motohaba and a wide sakihaba. The jigane is a finely packed ko-itame hada, forged into a bright and powerful jigane, and the hamon is a gunome midareba in the style of Minamoto Kiyomaro, with both the daito and shoto exhibiting many of Kiyomaro's kinsuji, tempered wonderfully bright and magnificent. The koshirae are also luxurious daisho koshirae that add further splendor to these daisho swords. These masterpiece daisho swords were specially made over a period of more than one year after an old connoisseur visited the forge and made repeated, persistent requests; however, we have received them with the request to "please pass them on at a low price to someone who will cherish them, as we have also grown old." Therefore, we are offering them at a special bargain price. Please by all means enjoy these masterpiece daisho swords, which have been given a top-quality togishi polish.
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As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Chikuzen · around 1989-2019
3 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.
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