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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchKatana in Shirasaya (NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token) (We divide 4 sections for each sword as Saijyo Saku, Jyojyo Saku, Jyo Saku and Regular Saku). This work ranks as Jyojyo Saku among the works of Kawai Hisayuki. Shape: A fine-looking sword with a length of 74.4 cm (29.29 in), deep curvature, and a long kissaki. Jigane: Well-forged masame-hada with some ubu-ba remaining. Hamon: Nie-deki, gunome-midare. Kinsuji actively appears within the temper line. Features: Shinshinto: Jyo Saku: Musashi. Kawai Hisayuki was a swordsmith active in the late Edo period, born in 1786 into the Hatamoto Kawai family. He studied under Shimizu Hisayoshi, a disciple of Nakayama Ikkansai Yoshihiro and Hosokawa Masayoshi, and worked as a swordsmith in Koishikawa, Edo. This work features a well-forged, tightly packed masame-hada grain pattern, with active sunagashi flowing through the gunome hamon, creating a unified appearance between the Jigane and Hamon. It is a healthy blade with an outstanding workmanship. NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Certificate
Certificate reading — 銘 幕府士川井久幸七十八歳作之 文久三亥年二月
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.
A Hozon-certified blade judged to show notably superior workmanship and a better state of preservation. The bar is higher: re-tempered blades and most unsigned Muromachi/Edo works are excluded.
The NBTHK (Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, the Society for the Preservation of Japanese Art Swords) is a public-interest incorporated foundation founded in 1948 and supervised by Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō); it is based at the Japanese Sword Museum in Tokyo. Its expert panels physically examine each submitted work (shinsa) and issue a certificate (kanteishō) ranking it by artistic and historical merit. NBTHK papers are the most widely recognized standard of authentication for Japanese swords and fittings.
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