NihontoWatchIt has appeared, it has appeared, a katana by the swordsmith Miike Ju Kunitada with outstanding cutting ability has appeared. He is a master smith who has won special prizes at the Shinsaku Meito Ten in recent years. The swordsmith Kunitada, whose real name is Komiya Yokimitsu, resides in Omuta City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and was born as the eldest son of the swordsmith Komiya Shiro Kunimitsu, who was famous for forging the great wazamono of the Showa era. The Komiya clan is a famous family of swordsmiths, consisting of a lineup of wonderful and famous masters: the father Kunimitsu, the eldest son Kunitada, the second son Yasumitsu, and the third son Kunimitsu. The ancestor of the Komiya family was a retained smith of the Tachibana family of the Yanagawa Domain in Chikugo during the Edo period, and later the 4th generation Komiya Shiro Kunimitsu of the Meiji era moved from Yanagawa to Miike, taking the swords of the Heian period swordsmith Miike Denta Mitsuyo as his ideal. In the finals of the national tameshigiri competition sponsored by the Army held before the war, he defeated the cutting ability of a Kotetsu sword to win the championship, and was praised as the "Modern Kotetsu." What is consistent among the swordsmiths of the Komiya school is the creation of swords that cut, and this katana is a copy of a famous sword by Bizen no Kuni Fukuoka Ichimonji from the Kamakura period. It displays a good sugata with a difference between the moto-mihaba and saki-mihaba and a chu-kissaki, the jigane shows a powerful jitetsu forged in itame hada with ji-nie, and the horimono consists of skillfully carved bo-hi. The hamon is a nioi-deki gunome midare-ba with ko-nie, with many ashi entering the ha, and it is a magnificent copy of the Bizen Fukuoka Ichimonji, which is called the flower of Kamakura period swords. The modern koshirae with a leather-wrapped tsuka adds even more splendor to this katana. This time, we received this Bizen Fukuoka Ichimonji utsushi katana, which was specially custom-ordered, from a member of an old family who said, "We have fully enjoyed it ourselves, so please pass it on at a low price to someone who will cherish it," and therefore we are offering it at a special bargain price. Please enjoy it by all means.
Offered by Nipponto
3 on the market
As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Chikugo · around 1989-
3 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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¥650,000