Around 1800 Suishinshi Masahide argued in his writings that the craft must return to the old masters’ methods: the fukkotō revival. His greatest successor Naotane worked convincingly in Bizen and Sōshū manners that had been dead for centuries.
波平一派は、平安後期とも伝わる初祖正国以降、幕末明治期の六十四代安行まで、九百年もの長きに渡って、その命脈を保ち続けた大和系鍛冶です。正国以降、行安、安行を嫡流的に継承し、一門の多くが『安』、『行』を通字としています。中でも波平行安は、『波平らかにして、行くこと安らか』とも読めることから、古来より水軍、近代では海軍軍人に好まれました。 本工は、同派正系六十三代目を継承した行安の佳品、茎の所持者銘、地刃の出来からして、注文打ち入念作と鑑せられます。 六十二代安利の子で、文化七年生まれ、勘之丞と称し、安政五年に『大和介』を受領、慶応元年に『大和守』へ転じています。行安としては最後の刀工、作は嘉永初年から明治初年頃まで、明治十五年、七十三歳で没しています。 本作は、慶応三年、同工五十八歳の作、鎬高く、身幅、重ねガシッとした頑健な造り込みで、地刃すこぶる健全、刀がズシッと重いです。 やや沈み心に良く詰んだ綺麗な地鉄は、細やかな柾肌流れ、細直刃湾れ調で僅かに小互の目交じりの刃は、刃縁匂い勝ちで所々荒沸付き、ほつれ、打ちのけ、喰違刃、二重刃風の沸筋掛かり、刃中小足、葉、小互の目足入るなど、派手な出来ではないですが、刃縁の細やかで多彩な働きは素晴らしいものがあります。 大和物お好きな方は是非、海の男ならずとも、一振り持ちたい波平行安です。
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The Shinshintō revival
Around 1800 Suishinshi Masahide argued in his writings that the craft must return to the old masters’ methods: the fukkotō revival. His greatest successor Naotane worked convincingly in Bizen and Sōshū manners that had been dead for centuries.
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