NihontoWatchKumamoto Prefecture Important Intangible Cultural Property. Mukansa sword smith. Minamoto Moriyoshi A superb Kiyomaro utsushi by Mukansa sword smith Minamoto Moriyoshi. It shows a grand and powerful sword sugata with a wide mihaba and large kissaki, and is a superior work where active hataraki appears abundantly in the hamon. Shinogi-zukuri, iori mune, wide mihaba, standard kasane, torii-zori, large kissaki. Nakago is ubu, yasurime are kiri, nakago-jiri is kurijiri. The carving is a bohi with kata-chiri that becomes kakinagashi below the habaki. Jigane is itame肌, mixed slightly with mokume, ji-nie attaches minutely and thickly, and thick chikei enters. Hamon is gunome-midare, mixed with small gunome and choji-style ha, etc., ashi enter, nioi-honai with ko-nie, kinsuji enters magnificently, sunagashi is layered many times, and the nioiguchi is bright and clear. Boshi is midare-komi and returns in ko-maru. Minamoto Moriyoshi, whose real name was Tanigawa Matsukichi, was born in Taisho 9. He forged swords in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. In Showa 9, Moriyoshi entered the school of Kongobyoe Moritaka Yasuhiro, and later studied under Enju Taro Nobushige. For his mei, he took the character "Mori" from the Kongobyoe school and called himself "Moriyoshi," but because he was also a disciple of Enju Nobushige, he also began to use the name "Enju Nobutsugu" separately from "Moriyoshi" in Showa 16. In Showa 52, he produced a Peace Treaty Commemoration Sword. Since the 1st Sword Making Technique Exhibition in Showa 29, he exhibited continuously and won numerous awards, becoming a Mukansa sword smith in Showa 60. He raised his reputation through Minamoto Kiyomaro utsushi and left behind many masterpieces, including powerful Soshu-den works, but regrettably passed away at age 70 in Heisei 2. This work is a blade in the Kiyomaro utsushi style that Moriyoshi excelled at; in addition to the grand sword sugata, the kinsuji that enters actively within the ha is splendid. The blade is long, the mihaba is wide, and it shows a grand workmanship tempered in Soshu-den. Please by all means add this superior Kiyomaro utsushi by the sword smith Moriyoshi to your collection. Habaki: Solid silver single-layer koshi-yujo Saya: Shirasaya Polishing: Good condition. Flaws: There are no flaws that would be considered defects.
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Kumamoto · around 1926-1989
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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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