Yamato School Katana

SIGNED NANTO JU FUJIWARA KANESADA, LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

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Yamato School Katana
Signed Nanto ju Fujiwara Kanesada, late Muromachi period (16th century)
The blade honzukuri, iori-mune, with extended chu-kissaki the forging pattern ko-itame with jinie; tempered edge ko-gunome in suguha style with ko-maru boshi; the tang with two holes, takano-ha file marks on ura, saka-takano-ha file marks on omote, ubu of kurijiri
72cm. from tip to beginning of tang; 2.5cm. curvature; 3.1cm. wide at start of tempered edge; 2.3cm. wide before tip
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]

Lot Essay

Several generations of the later Yamato Tegai school smiths, associated with the Todaiji temple in Nara (Nanto, the "Southern Capital") signed "Kanesada" from the Nambokucho period onwards. This blade is evidently of the late Muromachi period. Homma Junji lists a smith signing "Nanto ju" in the Eisho era (1504-21), and another, possibly by this smith, who was active around the Tensho era (1573-92).

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