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元長は、尾張の名工信高に学んで初銘を信直と切る。探求心が強く、業成った後も大坂に出て涛瀾乱刃で評判高い尾崎助隆門を叩き、さらに享和頃には相州伝の名手として薩摩にその人ありと知られた奥元平門となって元長と改銘している。得心行くまで修業して帰国した後は、名古屋城下で鎚を振るっている。
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Settsu · around 1801-1804
Fujishiro Chu-jo saku · Tōken Taikan top 76%
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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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