Large Katana Owari Masatsune

Large Katana signed Masatsune

Early Edo – Kanbun Shinto – Owari Province
Owari Seki School

Mei / Signature :
Omote : Masatsune
Ura : February 1660

Massive and large blade of almost 80 cm (which is rare for this period), ubu, signed and dated, in perfect condition.
Very nice hamon made in a large suguha in ko nie deki not devoid of activity, where we can see some sunagashi and ashi.
The kitae is made in a beautiful and regular itame.

This gorgeous blade is accompagnied by a shirasaya with a sayagaki made by the expert Tanobe Tanzan, whose reputation is well known in the world of nihonto after a long career with the NBTHK.
Here is the exact translation of this sayagaki:
- Oshu (another name for the province of Owari)
- Nando Sasuke (customary name of the blacksmith)
- Masatsune (name of the blacksmith)
- 2 kanji characters, the date of February 1660.
- Fourth generation (But it can also be seen as the third since the life of the second Masatsune was very short-lived as he died before the first. So in fact the third can be seen as the second generation and the fourth the third).
- The length of the blade is particularly long and slightly curved, like a stick, and it has a robust appearance, a typical Shinto Kanbun shape.
- The Ji-gane has a slightly modified form of Itame-hada.
- Ashi and Yo (Nioi-kuzure) appear in the Suguha in Ko nie-deki.
- This is an excellent example of the skill of this smith.
- The length of the blade is 2 shaku 6 sun 2 bu (79.6cm).
- This is written in the month of plum observation in the year of the dog Boshin. (This is around March 2018).
- Tanzan (Tanobe, very well known and reputed in the nihonto world after his long career in the NBTHK).

A beautiful satsuma style koshirae, just as rare as the blade, is also attached. The various tosogu elements are made of solid silver with a patina and a beautiful iron tsuba of the same theme (nami).

NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon certificate

Fujishiro grade : Shinto Chujosaku

Dimensions :
Nagasa = 79,6 cm
Motohaba = 32,5 mm
Kasane = 9 mm
Sori = 1 cm

This prestigious school was founded by the blacksmiths of Seki in Mino who emigrated to Owari at the end of the Muromachi period to follow Oda Nobunaga.
Masatsune, also called Nando Sasuke, is the yondai (4th generation). He received the title of Mino no Kami in 1662, and died in the spring of 1689. Ten generations followed behind him…

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