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江戸時代後期 武蔵国。 久幸は天明六年幕臣川井鎗次郎久尊の長男として生まれる。同家の遠祖は遠江にて徳川家康に仕え、大番の禄を食み、久幸の家はこの分家にあたり、家禄は八十石。武家の誇りを胸に、学問と剣術に勤しむ若き久幸は、幕末の不穏な空気を察してか、作刀に興味を持ち細川正義の門を叩いて刀工となった異色の刀工である。
NihontoWatchHisayuki久幸
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Musashi · around 1854-1860
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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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