Events |A TACHI BY BIZEN OMIYA MORISHIGE備前大宮盛重 080722
Read moreThe tachi presented here is a rare example of the Nanbokuchô period because it still retains its signature. This blade…
KATANA BY SHODAI YAMASHIRO KUNIKIYO 山城国清 070622
Read moreKunikiyo was born in 1589 in Matsuhiro city in Shinshu. His given name was Shimada Kichiemon and he was a student…
BIZEN TOMOMITSU TACHI 備前備光 050222
Read moreBizen Tomomitsu (備前倫光) was a smith from Bizen Province who worked in the Nanbokuchô Era (1333-1391). He was the son…
AN OUTSTANDING TSUBA BY SHÔNAI SHÔAMI DENBEI 庄内正阿弥伝兵衛000540
Read moreNihonto.com is very pleased to present this fine example of an iron tsuba by the Denbei tsubako of the Akita…
A TOKUBETSU JÛYÔ FUKUOKA ICHIMONJI TACHI BY YOSHIHIRA福岡一文字吉平 00043
Read moreThe Ichimonji School (一文字) in Bizen Province was a large school that was founded in the beginning of the Kamakura…
BEAUTIFUL KAGA GOTÔ KOZUKA 加賀後藤小柄 050822
Read moreHere we have an absolutely beautiful kozuka from the mid-Edo period (circa 1700). As noted it was made by the…
EXTRAORDINARY KO-KATCHUSHI TSUBA 古甲抽胄師 050622
Read moreThis is a truly extraordinary and huge iron ko-katchushi tsuba from the Muromachi era of the late15th to early 16thcentury. …
BEAUTIFUL JÛYÔ YAMATO TEGAI SCHOOL KATANA 大和手搔系 090621
Read moreDuring the Nara period, before the capital was transferred to Kyoto in Yamashiro province, the province of Yamato was the…
HIGO TSUBA 肥後鐔080322
Read moreThis is a nice iron kodai Higo tsuba. It is carved in an openwork design of bamboo leaves encased in…
BEAUTIFUL HIGO SCHOOL TSUBA 肥後 980422
Read moreThis is a very nice iron tsuba of the kodai Higo school. Tsuba of the Higo school have always been…
VERY NICE TOSA MYOCHIN TSUBA 土佐明珍 080522
Read moreThis is a very pleasing iron tsuba of the Tosa Myochin school. There was a group of tsuba makers who made large…
SUPERB TÔSHÔ TSUBA 刀匠鐔 080222
Read moreThis is a very nice Tôshô tsuba from the late Muromachi to early Edo era. Tôshô tsuba are tsuba that…
NIDAI MURAMASA 二代村正 070122
Read moreIt is a pleasure to be able to offer for sale this tantô by the famous (or infamous) smith, the…
Articles |THE NAKAI KOSHIRAE
Read moreIn the middle of the 19th century (1851), a man named Nakai Genzaemon ordered the custom fabrication of a koshirae…
BEAUTIFUL SHOAMI TSUBA (正阿弥) 051522
Read moreThis is a lovely and artistic Edo period tsuba from the Shoami school. It depicts seabirds in mid-flight with two…
TSUBA BY SÔHEISHI KITAGAWA SÔTEN 藻柄⼦喜多河⼊道宗典 051622
Read moreThis is something rarely offered for sale. A tsuba by the first generation Sôheishi Sôten, the founder of the very…
IRON DRAGON SUKASHI TSUBA 060222
Read moreThis is a pleasing iron tsuba with a dragon carved in openwork. It measures 3 inches by 2 ¾ inches. …
KATANA BY CHIKUZEN NOBUKUNI YOSHIKANE 筑前信國 吉包 020422
Read moreNihonto.com is pleased to present the katana by Chikuzen Nobukuni Yoshikane (筑前信國吉包). Yoshikane was is son of Chikuzen Nobukuni Yoshitsugu…
FUTATOKOROMONO BY GOTÔ TEIJÔ 後藤程乗020322
Read moreGotô Teijô (1603-1673), was the second son of Kenjô, the seventh Shirobei mainline master. His real name was Genichirô, which…
NIDAI DEWA DAIJÔ KUNIMICHI 出羽大掾国路020622
Read moreThis is an excellent katana by the second generation (Nidai) Dewa Daijô Kunimichi (出羽大掾国路) of the Horikawa Kunihiro (堀川国広) school. …
