NihontoWatchNihontoWatchQ165. Large shakudo menuki. These are 5.1 and 5.5 cm long (unusually large, see my last picture with a penny for scale). Deep black shakudo shishi in mint condition, in a better quality fitted box with pillow and with also a paper from the NTHK, dated 2010. In with the paper is a partial translation: Menuki. Kyo Kanagu-shi saku. Shakudo material, deign of shishi, Takabori work, early Edo period. This set is impressive; you won’t be disappointed.
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Kyo-kanagushi School
Edo
Unsigned
NTHK (NTHK)
Kinko · Yamashiro
The NTHK’s principal certificate, issued for a fitting of considerable quality. It confirms a genuine signature, or, for an unsigned (mumei) work, records the judges’ attribution to a maker or school.
The NTHK (Nihon Tōken Hozon Kai, the Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword) is the oldest of Japan’s sword-appraisal bodies, founded in 1910, decades before the NBTHK. After the death of its long-serving head it divided into two successor societies, the NTHK and the NTHK-NPO, both of which continue to hold shinsa. NTHK blade certificates are known for a detailed worksheet that records a numerical point score alongside the judges’ written opinion (fitting papers carry the judges’ opinion without a point score), and the society is especially respected for its attribution of unsigned (mumei) work.
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