Katana
Ordering number: 06303
Katana in Shirasaya （NBTHK Hozon paper）
Signature: Gassan Sadakazu Iwami Tetsu Takagi Eino Kun Tanren Zo.
Meiji 20 Nen 12 Gatsuhi.
The blade is polished, with a gold foiled habakii, in a
shirasaya.
Blade length: 67cm or 26,38 inches.
Sori: 1.0 cm or 0.394 inches.
Width at the hamachi:2.44cm or 0.96inch.
Width at the Kissaki:1.76cm or 0.693inch.
Thickness at the hamachi:0.82cm or 0.323inch.
Era: Meiji period. Shape: A hira-zukuri tanto, iori-mune.
Jitetsu:Koitame hada well grained with Jinie attach.
Hamon: Suguha-hamon with a lot of small Ashi work.
from Monouchi area, the Nioikuchi thick.
special feature.
Sadakazu the First, born Yagoro in 1836 at Hikone in Koshu province, present
Shiga pref.
became an adopted son of Gassan Sadayoshi who was a swordsmith
lived at Osaka.
Sadakazu started to learn when he was eleven years
old
and mastered traditional ayasugi-hada of Gassan school as early
as twenty
years old.
He continued forging after the Meiji Government administered
a law to forbid wearing the sword
in 1876 and was approved as
a Teishitsu-gigeiin,
a Craftman
to the Imperial Household in 1906
and received a command to forge
a
gunto for the Emperor Meiji in the next year.
Sadakazu passed
away in 1918, aged
84.
The First Sadakazu had been constant in his devotion to forge
sword all his life.
Everybody respected him for the nobility
of his mind.
His character
appears on his works
in every corner especially on their
meticulous attended tang to the file pattern.
That goes
without saying
about the excellent
ability of forging sword,
Sadakazu was preeminent not
only in the carving but also cutting signature by free
and easy
stroke
of tagane. Sadakazu's second son, Sadakatsu was
also a famous swordsmith. Sadakatsu's third son succeeded the
name Sadakazu as
the Second
who was approved
an important intangible cultural assets known
as Ningen-kokuho
in the postwar
Japan. This sword looks like a copy of Tegai
school Kanenaga first generation.
He is quite skilful for making any kind of
school.
NBTHK Hozon paper、AOI-ART estimation paper:whole Oshigata
