Modern Japan made the sword an exile, then an artwork: the 1876 Haitōrei ended sword wearing, the postwar ban nearly ended the craft, and the revival built on the NBTHK’s founding in 1948 remade it as a licensed art.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchKasama Ikkansai Shigetsugu received his initial training in smithing from his cousin, the master of carving Miyaguchi Ikkansai Shigeju, and further studied under Morioka Masayoshi of the Gassan school to refine his skills in forging and toshin bori; he was later invited to be an instructor at the Nihonto Denshusho, where he raised many successors who made a name for themselves in the world, and he is praised as a master among modern swordsmiths, with his particularly outstanding toshin bori skills having no equal in his era.
NihontoWatchOffered by Choshuya
4 on the market
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Tokyo · around 1912-1926
Tōken Taikan top 63%
4 pieces on the market now
The modern era (1868 to today)
Modern Japan made the sword an exile, then an artwork: the 1876 Haitōrei ended sword wearing, the postwar ban nearly ended the craft, and the revival built on the NBTHK’s founding in 1948 remade it as a licensed art.
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¥3,000,000