NihontoWatchReal name, Otake Shinichi. Residing in Tokyo. Working as a swordsmith in the Japanese capital of Tokyo is extremely difficult, and he is a precious master smith 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 to the early Showa era. - Condition of the toshin The sugata has a wide mihaba and funbari, the jigane has a beautiful muji-style hadame, and the hamon is a gunome with a tight habuchi and ashi, while the boshi returns with a togari-gokoro. - Koshirae The tsuka has been remade to a suitable thickness using modern kanagu, a maru-gata ita-tsuba has been added, and it is a koshirae housed in a new cha-ishime saya.
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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