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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatch優雅な佇まいを見せる合口拵は刀身と同時代。金小縁の赤銅七々子地金具は丁寧に仕立てられ、栗型や瓦金まで一作。小柄と目貫は二所物で、赤銅七々子地に銀地獅子図小柄、目貫も同様に銀地獅子図で瀟洒な拵に色を添えている。鞘は腰元を黒の一分刻みとし、艶のある黒茶鞘は裏側に経年による傷と膨れがある。柄は鉄刀木と思われる堅木造りで、目貫はねじ形。拵だけでも相当の価値がある。 刀身は一寸近い長さの両刃造り。生ぶ無銘で江戸後期の寿命に極められている。鎌倉時代から代々続く美濃寿命は、その縁起のよい名前から人気を博したという。刃文は互の目乱れで尖り刃が交じり、地鉄は練れた小板目肌。古研ぎで僅かに鞘ヒケあるも錆などはなく研ぎの必要はない。保存刀剣鑑定書附。
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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.
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