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KATANA BY TANGO no KAMI NAOMICHI (丹後守直道) 120122
Tango no Kami Naomichi (丹後守直道) was a smith from the Mishina school who worked in Osaka in the late 1600’s…
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KATANA BY IZUMI (no) KAMI KANESHIGE和泉守兼重 090322
For many years Izumi (no) Kami Kaneshige (和泉守兼重) was thought to be the same smith as Kazusa (no) Suke Kaneshige…
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HEIAN ERA TACHI BY OHARA SANEMORI 大原真守 000049
One old account says that Hôki Yasutsuna (伯耆安綱), the founder of the Ko-Hôki school lived in the Daido era (806-810). …
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KATANA BY NIDAI HIZEN MASAHIRO 二代肥前正広100122
Nidai Kawachi-no-Kami Masahiro was born in the fourth year of Kan’ei (1627) when his father was 21 years old. He…
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KATANA BY ISHIDÔ MORIHISA 石堂守久 120322
Morihisa was a member of the Edô Ishidô school of sword smiths. His given name was Hachizaemonnojô. He was the…
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OMI NO KAMI TSUGUHIRO 近江守継廣 110622
Omi no Kami Tsuguhiro (近江守継廣) was a member of the Echizen Seki (越前関) school. He was one of many swordsmiths…
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JÛYÔ TÔKEN NAKAJIMA RAI KUNINAGA KATANA WITH CUTTING TEST中島来国長090622
Rai Kunitoshi (来国俊) is considered to have been one of the premiere sword smiths of all time and he trained…
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KATANA BY NIDAI HIZEN MASAHIRO 二代肥前正広090222
Nidai Kawachi-no-Kami Masahiro was born in the fourth year of Kan’ei (1627) when his father was 21 years old. He…
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JÛYÔ TÔKEN NAKAJIMA RAI KUNINAGA中島来国長000541
The blade offered here is by the founder of the Nakajima Rai School, Rai Kuninaga (来国長) who was one of…
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KATANA BY SHODAI YAMASHIRO KUNIKIYO 山城国清 070622
Kunikiyo was born in 1589 in Matsuhiro city in Shinshu. His given name was Shimada Kichiemon and he was a student…
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BEAUTIFUL KAGA GOTÔ KOZUKA （加賀後藤小柄）110722
Nihonto.com is pleased to present this absolutely wonderful gold, silver, and shakudo kozuka. Let me start by saying that the…
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BEAUTIFUL JÛYÔ YAMATO TEGAI SCHOOL KATANA 大和手搔系 090621
During the Nara period, before the capital was transferred to Kyoto in Yamashiro province, the province of Yamato was the…
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Gallery |A TOKUBETSU JÛYÔ FUKUOKA ICHIMONJI TACHI BY YOSHIHIRA福岡一文字吉平 00043
The Ichimonji School (一文字) in Bizen Province was a large school that was founded in the beginning of the Kamakura…
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Articles |THE NAKAI KOSHIRAE
In the middle of the 19th century (1851), a man named Nakai Genzaemon ordered the custom fabrication of a koshirae…
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NIDAI DEWA DAIJÔ KUNIMICHI 出羽大掾国路020622
This 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. …
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BEAUTIFUL KAGA GOTÔ KOZUKA 加賀後藤小柄 050822
Here we have an absolutely beautiful kozuka from the mid-Edo period (circa 1700). As noted it was made by the…
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NIDAI MURAMASA 二代村正 070122
It is a pleasure to be able to offer for sale this tantô by the famous (or infamous) smith, the…
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JÛYÔ TÔKEN YAMATO SHIKKAKE KATANA 大和尻懸 090421
The founder of the Shikkake (尻懸) School is traditionally said to have been Norihiro (則弘) who lived around the end…
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WAKIZASHI BY SHODAI NOBUKUNI 信国 050721
Nihonto.com is pleased to present this fine wakizashi by the Shodai (first generation) Nobukuni (信国). The first generation Nobukuni (信国)…
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JAPANESE SWORDS: SÔSHÛ-DEN MASTERPIECES 070221
Japanese Swords: Sôshû-Den Masterpieces by Dmitry Pechalov. Published in 2019. Clothbound with slipcase and cardboard storage box, 11 1/2 x 15…
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A DAISHO OF SWORDS BY DEWA-DAIJÔ KUNIMICHI 出羽大掾國路 #070120
While it is firmly established in many reference books that Kunimichi(國路) was a student of Horikawa Kunihiro (堀川國廣), no records…
