Nihonto / Japanese Sword

Katana Soshu Tsunahiro – 相州綱広 Koto – Muromachi Period – 1532 Province of Sagami Name of school: Sagami Sue Soshu (« Sue » refers to « Sosho den » production during Muromachi) Niedeki hamon in gunome midare dotted with tobiyaki giving a rather marked hitatsura appearance. Beautiful activity with strong presence of kinsuji, ashi […]

Katana signed “Hizen Kuni Kawachi no Daijo Fujiwara Masahiro” – 肥前国河内大掾藤原正広 Shodai (first generation) Early Edo ~1628 Hizen province School name : Tadayoshi Stunning and exuberant gunome midare hamon on a bright and deep Nioi base dotted with ko nie, ji nie, sunagashi, kinsuji … The Jigane is ko itame […]

Katana Ko Mihara Masahiro 古三原正広 Koto – Nanbokucho Period – 1384 Bingo Province (currently the eastern part of Hiroshima) Name of the school: (Ko) Mihara Hamon in chu suguha on base Nioi strewn with some nie, kinsuji and sunagashi, with a luminous nioiguchi. The jihada is in itame / mokume […]

Gorgeous sunobi Tanto signed Muramasa with its Koshirae. Koto – Muromachi period (1336 – 1573) Very beautiful blade of 37 cm nagasa (as mentioned on the certificate Hon’ami), where we can see a beautiful hamon in Hitatsura with great activity of Nie, ko nie, tobiyaki, some sunagashi … The hada […]

Katana signed « Kawachi no kami Kunisuke » 河内守国助 Second generation (nidai) « Naka Kawachi » Early Edo – 1658 Settsu province (Osaka) School : Kunisuke choji Midare hamon ko itame hada jigane komaru boshi Dimensions : Nagasa = 68,9 cm Sori = 0,9 cm Motohaba = 3,4 cm Kasane = 0,8 cm Fujishiro rank : […]

Rare Katana Yamato from Kanabo school. Koto period, late Muromachi (approx 1520). This small school was created late in Yamato, at the end of the Muromachi period. Its name comes from the fact that the blacksmiths added « Kanabo », the place of establishment of the school, to their patronymic in their […]

Big Katana signed Kofu Ju Minamoto Nobushige Zo, and dated Keio Gannen 8 gatuhi. Shinshinto period (1864), Musashi province. Nobushige was making swords under the Yushima Tenjin and he was probably influenced by the famous Suishinshi Masahide. This Katana is big and massive, with a Niedeki Kogunome midare Hamon, and a  ko itame […]

Katana O suriage attributed by a NBTHK certicate to Hideyo Hyoshinshi – 水心子秀世 Shinshinto Kaei 1848 Musashi province. Hideyo, also called Tamura Gunpei, was the student and son-in-law of the great Suishinshi Masahide considered the founder of the movement Shinshinto. The particular and rare shape of this blade is called […]

Rare Koto Katana attributed to Sengo school of the Ise province. 千子 Complete and following mount. Mumei Suriage blade attributed to Sengo school by a NBTHK Hozon certificate. This one is a bit tired due to several successive polishing but all features are present and even admirable. Itame Jihada, Hamon […]

Wakizashi Koto with superb finely carved horimono. Mounted in shirasaya with habaki in silver. Muromachi period (1336 – 1573) Mumei O suriage (shortened), no papers. The bonji is « Benzaiten ». Benzaiten is a japanese buddhist goddess of knowledge, art and beauty, eloquence, music, literature, arts and science, virtue and wisdom, prosperity […]