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永重は江戸前期の寛文頃に、奥州伊達家の仙台青葉城下で活躍した。初代は美濃国清宣門で、慶長頃に伊達家の領国に来住した久右衛門長俊。永重はその四代孫で、承応頃に摂津守を受領し、菊紋を許され、茎に一文字を刻した。
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Rikuzen · around 1652-1655
Tōken Taikan top 76%
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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