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Nihonto - Yamato Tegai 大和手掻 - 1394-1428 (應永 Oei) - 30 - Katana - Sword - 刀
THE YAMATO SUE-TEGAI SCHOOL
by Fred Weissberg 02/06
The first generation Kanenaga is known to be the founder of the Yamato Tegai School of sword making. This school got its name from the fact that its workshop was built in front of the gate Tegai-mon belonging to the Todaiji Temple in Nara. The Tegai School was founded by the smith, Kanenaga who worked around 1288-1293. The smiths of this school all used the same character for kane in their works. Some of the other smiths were Kanekiyo, Kanetsugu , Kanetoshi, and Kanemitsu. Some of the later smiths such as Kaneuji moved to Mino.
Of the smiths of this school, the first generation Kanenagaleft a fair number of signed examples of his work. Most have been greatly shortened with the two characters being found at the bottom of the nakago. The name Kanenaga was also used by succeeding generations of smiths.The works of the first generation Kanenaga are known to be the best that the Tegai School produced.
Toward the end of the Nanbokucho period, the school ceased to be active. With the beginning of the Muromachi period, however, it revived and began to once again prosper. This was the start of what is known as the Sue-Tegai School.
The workmanship of the Sue-Tegai School is difficult to distinguish from that of other Yamato Schools of the period. It might be said that swords made by the Sue-Tegai smiths show features generally common to late Yamato swords. Here are the basic characteristics of the Sue-Tegai School:
SUGATA:The shape of Sue Tegai works is what we have come to know as typical Yamato for the period. They are shinogi-zukuri and irori mune.The shinogi is high with a wide shinogi-haba . Shinogi-zukuri and shobu-zukuri shapes are found in wakizashi. In tanto, there is a narrow mihaba, a shortened nagasa, and a slightly rounded fukura. The sugata looks sharp. The kasane is thick, in spite of narrow mihaba.
HAMON:The temper line is narrow and tight. The hamon consists of nioi with some nie, but with little activity. O-midare, is seen on occasion.
BOSHI:Yakizume becomes rare compared with older Tegai blades. The standard ko-maru boshi is most common. The kaeri becomes longer than in older Tegai blades.
HADA:The fine ko-mokume ji-hada is mixed with masame-hada. There is little or no ji-nie present. The jigane is a bit hard and whitish in color.
NAKAGO:While, most of the surviving works are o-suriage with the original nakago lost, there are surviving examples with a mei, but they are rare.
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Nihonto - Yamashiro Mishina Kinmichi 山城三品金道 - 1789-1801 (寛政 Kansei) - 258246 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
MISHINA SCHOOL
KINMICHI (金道), 1st gen., Keichō (慶長, 1596-1615), Yamashiro
oldest son of the Seki-smith Kanemichi (兼道), he accompanied his father in 1593 together with his 3 brothers Echigo no Kami Rai Kinmichi, Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi and Etchū no Kami Masatoshi (越中守正俊) to Kyōto where they settled in Nishinotō´in, at the same time, Kanemichi founded the Mishina school there, the name
Kinmichi was in back then read as Kanemichi but to avoid confusion more and more the reading Kinmichi became common.
On the 19th February 1594 he received the honorary title Iga no Kami and worked also for the Imperial Court since that time, shortly before the Battle of Sekigahara Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered 1.000 tachi by him, due to the skillful management of all the workers he was granted with the honorary title:
Nihon-kaji-sōshō / 日本鍛冶惣匠 / Master swordsmith of Japan.
With that title, he had a certain influence at court on the granting of honorary titles for other swordsmiths, the title and the advisory function at Court were hereditary and held by successive Kinmichi generations until the bakumatsu era.
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Nihonto - Yamashiro Mishina Kinmichi 山城三品金道 - 1789-1801 (寛政 Kansei) - 258246 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
Nihonto - Izumi No Kami Kunitora 和泉守國虎 - 1684-1688 (貞享 Jokyo) - 19257 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
The 3 generations Kunitora worked for the Naitō family (内藤), the daimyō of the Yunagaya fief (湯長谷藩) of Mutsu province who had an income of 15.000 koku. The 1st generation Kunitora was a student of Inoue Shinkai (井上真改) and according to transmissions of the Nemoto family (根本), the family to which the Kunitora smiths belonged, he had also studied in Kyōto under a Kinmichi (金道) but it is not mentioned under which Kinmichi. He was active around Jōkyō (貞享, 1684-1688) and as he was a Kinmichi-student, he received
the permission to engrave a chrysanthemum onto his tangs. He forged a dense mokume and tempered a midare, hiro-suguha, notare or midare in nie-deki. His honorary title „Izumi no Kami“ (和泉守) was also granted to the 2nd and 3rd generation Kunitora.
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Nihonto - Izumi No Kami Kunitora 和泉守國虎 - 1684-1688 (貞享 Jokyo) - 19257 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
Run Route-008 beside Japan sea.
route-8 near sea area north bound. Start from LAWSON akasaki shop。 Not SVX.
Nihonto - Owari Takamichi 尾張貴道 - 1716-1736 (享保 Kyoho) - 19244 - Katana - Sword - 刀
TAKAMICHI (貴道), 1st gen., Kan´ei (寛永, 1624-1644), Owari – “Awa no Kami Taira Takamichi” (阿波守平貴道), he came originally from Mino province where he had belonged to the Muroya school (室屋), later he moved to Nagoya (名古屋) in Owari province, dense itame, sometimes also masame, notare, also suguha mixed with ko-notare in ko-nie-deki, chūjō-saku
TAKAMICHI (貴道), 2nd gen., Meireki (明暦, 1655-1658), Owari – “Yamato no Kami Minamoto Takamichi” (大和守源貴道), “Nanban-tetsu o motte Yamato no Kami Minamoto Takamichi saku” (以南蛮鉄大和守源貴道作, “made by Yamato no Kami Takamichi by using nanban-tetsu”), he worked in the style of the 1st gen., he also hardened a notare mixed with gunome in nie-deki with wide nioiguchi, wazamono
TAKAMICHI (貴道), 3rd gen., Kanbun (寛文, 1661-1673), Owari – “Bishū Shinano no Kami Minamoto Takamichi” (尾州信濃守源貴道), “Shinano no Kami Takamichi” (信濃守源貴道)
TAKAMICHI (貴道), Manji (万治, 1658-1661), Owari – “Mutsu no Kami Tachibana Takamichi” (陸奥守橘貴道)
TAKAMICHI (貴道), Shōtoku (正徳, 1711-1716), Owari – “Mutsu no Kami Takamichi” (陸奥守貴道)
TAKAMICHI (貴道), Kyōhō (享保, 1716-1736), Owari – “Bitchū no Kami Takamichi” (備中守貴道)
TAKAMICHI (貴道), Kyōhō (享保, 1716-1736), Owari – “Harima no Kami Minamoto Takamichi” (播磨守源貴道), “Bishū Harima no Kami Tachibana Takamichi” (尾州播磨守橘貴道)
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Nihonto - Yamato Senjuin Yukinobu 大和千手院行信 - 1293-1299 (永仁 Einin) - 154802 - Tachi - Sword - 刀
GENERAL OUTLINE OF THE SENJUIN HA 千手院派
At the northwest of the Tôdaiji Sangatsu-dô is the SENJUIN 千手院, and in the beginning this IN 院 (temple or monastery) was at Senju-tani of Wakakusa-yama, but it was moved here during TENROKU 天禄 (970-973). Then, it is said that in the reign of Horikawa Tennô (1086-1107), a man named YUKINOBU 行信 made a naginata in this place for the first time, and after that, this trade was handed down for a number of generations, and they were called the SENJUIN KAJI 千手院鍛冶. In this ichirui (group), according to the meikan, there were a large number of tôkô, but zaimei swords they made are almost non-existent. YUKINOBU 行信, TOSHIMASA 俊正, ARIYUKI 有行, SHIGEHIRO 重弘 and such are all famous smiths, but are known in word only, and I have not yet come in contact with any swords that were positively made by them.
To begin with, among the YAMATO MONO 大和物, and not just limited to this Keitô, it is generally the case that the ubu nakago that are mumei are the most common, but I wonder why this is so? Also, compared to other kuni, there are very few that are influenced by the jidai, they are very conservative, and I wonder why they are all classical. There are probably various reasons for this, but the thing which should be noted first is that a response to a general demand was comparatively infrequent, in other words, the majority were kaji supported by someone, and so, this was because the tastes of the supporting lords were conservative, and classical.
YUKINOBU 行信
Looking in the Kaji Mei Hayamidashi 鍛冶銘早見出, it says that he is the founder of SENJUIN 千手院, he used a nijimei, and that his jidai was NINPEI 仁平 (1151-1154), and mainly KENKYÛ 建久 (1190-1999). [TN: It says HON KENKYÛ 本建久, and I have interpreted this to mean mainly, but from NINPEI to KENKYÛ is quite an interval.] In the (Kotô Meijin Taizen 古刀銘尽大全), it says in the keizu that the shodai was of around CHÔSHÔ 長承 (1132-1135), the nidai was of around NINPEI 仁平 (1151-1154), and that he was also called YUKINOBU 行延. Most other books have, since long ago, list YUKINOBU 行信 as a tôkô of the Heianchô Jidai, but in the Hidanshô 秘談抄, it says that he was of around SHÔGEN 正元 (1259-1260), in other words, lists him as a tôkô of the middle Kamakura Jidai. It is difficult to quickly determine which of these is correct, but if YUKINOBU 行信 is clearly the founder of the SENJUIN 千手院, since I think that the time tachi with the SENJUIN 千手院 mei on the next page was made is not later than the beginning of the Kamakura Jidai, it follows that the time of YUKINOBU 行信 was probably not later than this. [TN: Around 1185]
ref. Nihonto Koza
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Nihonto - Yamato Tegai Masanaga 大和手掻政長 - 1504-1521 (永正 Eisho) - 41061 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
MASANAGA (政長), 1st gen., Eishō (永正, 1504-1521), Yamato
“Yamato no Kuni-jū Fujiwara Masanaga saku”
(大和国藤原政長作),
Masanaga is thought to have been the founder of the Kanabo
School when the sword production center moved off to the
Kanabo area of Nara. For that reason Masanaga is listed to both
Tegai and Kanabo school, chūjō-saku
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Nihonto - Yamato Tegai Kanabo Masanaga 大和手掻金房政長 - 1504-1521 (永正 Eisho) - 41061 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
Nihonto - Settsu Kaneyasu 攝津包保 - 1624-1644 (寛永 Kanei) - 41310 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀
KANEYASU (包保), 1st gen., Kan´ei (寛永, 1624-1644), Yamato/Settsu – ““Kaneyasu” (包保), Mutsu no Kami Kaneyasu” (陸奥守包保), he moved from Yamato to Ōsaka in Settsu province, he signed in mirrored writing and is therefore called Hidari-Mutsu (左陸奥, lit. “left-hander Kaneyasu”), we know date signatures from the sixth year of Kan´ei (1629) and the second year of Jōō (承応, 1653), Yamato-esque jigane with masame, gunome-midare or ō-notare with many sunagashi and kinsuji, also suguha-hotsure, his magnificent ō-gunome-midare quasi anticipates the tōran-midare of Sukehiro (助広), gyaku-sujikai yasurime, ryō-wazamono, jō-saku
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Nihonto - Settsu Kaneyasu 攝津包保 - 1624-1644 (寛永 Kanei) - 41310 - Wakizashi - Sword - 刀