| Shape : The blade is regular sized
with nice Sori and also longer Kissaki
nice looking sword.
Jitetsu : Koitame hada well grained with Jinie attach.
Hamon : Niedeki Sakasa Cyoji and Gunome midare convined and long Ashi work.
Ikkansai Shigetsugu was born in 1886 in Shizuoka pref. as a nephew
of Miyairi Ikkansai Shigetoshi who was also a swordsmith. Shigetsugu
learned under his uncle
and Morioka Masayoshi. Shigetsugu went to Tokyo in 1903 and entered to the
Tokiwa-Matsu Token Kenkyu-sho the Toyama house. Shigetsugu became
a chief swordsmith and made
several special swords to present. Accordiing to the inscription on the tang,
he forged this katana accepting a personal order of Mr. Miyagi. Shigetsugu
spent his life to revive and passing down the traditional method
of tempering Japanese
sword. Shigetsugu passed away in 1966, aged 80.
Miyairi Akihira and Tsukamoto Okimasa were his famous excellent pupils. Later
Miyairi Akihira became a preserver of Important Intangible Cultural Assets,
popularly known as Living National Treasures. Tsukamoto Okimasa became Shigetsugu's
son-in-law
but died while still young.
This sword was made at the Toyama Mitsuru house which has Tanrenjyo(making
sword factory)
AOI-ART estimation paper : Whole Oshigata.
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