NihontoWatchReal name, Otake Shinichi. Residing in Tokyo. Working as a swordsmith in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, is extremely difficult, and he is a precious master craftsman forging swords in that city. He is also famous as a swordsmith who carries on the lineage of the renowned smith Kasama Ikkansai Shigetsugu, who was active from the Taisho era through the early Showa era. - Condition of the toshin Although there are light rust and hike-kizu, there are no prominent flaws such as kitae-kizu; the jigane is a tenacious muji-fu hada, and the hamon is gunome-midare with somewhat uniform heads and thick ashi, with the kissaki slightly elongated and the boshi returning in komaru. The toshin, which has hi carved into it, has a correctly shaped hisaki and the hinari is quiet. - Koshirae The fuchi-kashira are antique, rugged iron pieces, and the tsuka-ito is tightly wound without loosening resulting in a slender tsuka; the tsuba is a maru-gata with amida-yasuri, and the saya has been newly made. The old saya also has traces of repair, but since it can still be used, it is included as a kae-zaya.
NihontoWatchTomohiro友宏
Offered by Ikeda Art
2 on the market
As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Musashi · around 1980-1995
2 pieces on the market now
Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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