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会津元興と極められた生ぶ茎無銘の短刀。元興は文政元年会津に生まれ、安政六年に江戸に出て石堂運寿是一に入門、慶応元年には秀国と改銘し、翌年七月に大和守を受領。沸出来の直刃と互の目乱刃の刃味優れた作を手掛けた、会津十一代和泉守兼定と並び尊称される幕末会津の屈指の優工。
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Iwashiro · around 1818-1830
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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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