After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatch豊後高田の平定盛と極められた大磨上無銘の刀。『日本刀銘鑑』によれば、定盛は豊後の戦国大名大友氏に仕えた平長盛の子。米沢藩主上杉鷹山が指料とした定盛の短刀は応永備前に見紛う程の出来であるといい、非凡な技量の刀工であったことが判る。
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Bungo · around 1532-1555
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The Muromachi period (1392 to 1573)
After the Ōnin War broke the Ashikaga order, a century of Sengoku warfare armed nearly every province in Japan. The era rewards a discriminating eye: routine work exists in quantity, and beside it stand custom blades of the first rank.
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