SIGNED SAGAMI NO KAMI FUJIWARA MASATSUNE, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

Details

An Owari Naginata
Signed Sagami no kami Fujiwara Masatsune, Edo Period (17th Century)
Blade naginata-zukuri, naginata-hi, forging pattern itame with jinie, tempered edge midare, midare boshi, tang ubu, three holes, double gilt copper habaki, nagasa 45.2cm., sori 2.2cm., motohaba 2.9cm., in shirasaya

Literature

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Mino no Meito to Tosogu (Tokyo, 1998), cat.no.12, p.12

The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokubetsu Ten, Tokugawa-ke yukari no Token/Tosogu (Tokyo, 2000), cat.no.4, p.4

Exhibited

Mino no Meito to Tosogu [The Masterpieces of swords and fittings in Mino], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, October 1998

Tokubetsu Ten, Tokugawa-ke yukari no Token/Tosogu [Exhibition of Swords and Fittings Associated with the Tokugawa Family], The Museum of Japanese Sword Fittings, Tokyo, April 2000

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Lot Essay

Originally named Kanetsune of Noshu (Mino Province), the smith acquired the title Sagami no kami in 1595, and was renamed Masatsune. He was retained in 1603 by Matsudaira Tadayoshi, the fourth son of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, in Owari, and then by Yoshinao following the death of Tadayoshi in 1607. The second generation died around 1610, and the first generation continued working until his death at the age of 84 in 1619. The school, known as Owari Mino, continued through the Edo Period.

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