Ordering number: 07451
Signature: Hizen Kuni Jyu Oumi Daijyo Fujiwara Tadahiro. Oowaza mono.
The blade was polished .
Blade length : 67.72 cm or 26.66 inches.
Sori : 1.2 cm or 0.47 inches.
Width at the hamachi : 3.05 cm or 1.20 inches.
Wide at the Kissaki : 2.05 cm or 0.80 inches.
Kasane : 0.69 cm or 0.27 inches.
Era : Edo period Kanei era.
Shape : The blade is wide and thick with long Kissaki nice looking shape.
Jitetsu :Traditional konuka-hada of Hizen-to. Fine jinie and chikei appear
there.
Hamon : Suguha hamon with thick Nioikuchi and in Ha, there are some clear
fantastic Kinsuji work.
Special feature :
Tadahiro the Second forged this katana. He was born Heisakuro Hashimoto
as a legitimate son of Tadayoshi the First. Tadahiro was only19 years
old when his father passed away in1632 but he was enough skillful to
forge sword at that time. Tadahiro designated the Omi-Daijo in 1641,
aged 29 and continued not only forging sword but also supervised many
pupils until his death in 1693, aged 80. He is known as a skillful
swordsmith almost all works are above the standard hizen-to. He had
been forged sword for a long period of time to leave the largest number
of swords among the swordsmiths of Hizen school. He was good at both
of Suguha-hamon and Choji-midare Hamon. Especially the beauty of jitetsu
called konuka-hada is appreciated as the best among the hizen-to. His
swords are ranked at the Owaza-mono because of the sharpness.
This blade is healthy and nice balanced nice work.
Koshirae :
Tsuba :On the round shaped iron Tsuba, rise up mimi and on the Ji, some
Samurai are engraved with gold and copper plate.
Fuchikashira :On the syakudo nanako plate, some Kiku flowers are engraved
with gold color.
Saya : Black roiro saya.
Menuki : On the syakudo nanako plate, some flowers are engraved with
gold color.
NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper : Aoi Art estimatin paper : whole Oshigata.
Price : JPY 2,300,000- or US$ 23,000.00- (including shipping charge and 100% insurance fee) HOLD
