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.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchYoshitane was a wazamono swordsmith of the Echizen Shimosaka school. The group of swordsmiths who migrated from Shimosaka in Omi Province to Echizen around the end of the Sengoku period are called the Shimosaka school, and their representative swordsmith was Echizen Yasutsugu, who became the personal smith for Tokugawa Ieyasu's second son, Hideyasu. In addition to the Shimosaka lineage, Echizen produced many famous swordsmiths, such as Kunikiyo of the Yamashiro Horikawa lineage and Masanori, a descendant of Sanjo Yoshinori. Tanba no Kami Fujiwara Yoshifusa was a swordsmith of Echizen Fukui around the Enpo era (1673) of the Edo period. He was a swordsmith of the same era when Nagasone Kotetsu Okisato was highly active in Edo, and Tsuda Echizen no Kami Sukehiro and Inoue Shinkai were highly active in Osaka.
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Echizen · around 1624-1644
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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.
A Hozon-certified blade judged to show notably superior workmanship and a better state of preservation. The bar is higher: re-tempered blades and most unsigned Muromachi/Edo works are excluded.
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