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YASUMITSU comes from KOZORI roots - the line falling from KAGEHIDE, a MITSUTADA brother and OSAFUNE original. MORIMITSU(1) mostly signed with two characters and this trait has been noted for YASUMITSU as well. However, if one were to casually acquire a YASUMITSU, one would ardently pursue reference - an eye to style. _________________ KOZORI SHIGEYOSHI(3) TEI-JI 1362 The Three MITSUs |___________________________ ______________|____ - brothers - ___|____ UEMONnoJO YASUMITSU(1) O-EI 1394 YASUSADA O-EI 1394 |________________________ ________ _________ ________________|____ ___|____ ___|____ ___|___ SAKYOnoSUKE YASUMITSU(2) EI-KYO 1429 YASUNAGA YUKIKAGE YASUIYE ____|____ -EI-KYO 1429- O-EI 1394 YASUMITSU(3) BUN-AN 1444 ____|____ YASUMITSU(4) EI-SHO 1504 "The Three MITSUs" YASUMITSU(1) O-EI (f: KOZORI SHIGEYOSHI): UEMONnoJO. From O-EI 13. His SUGATA will appear balanced and proportionally correct. - CHU-KISSAKI, KOSHIZORI O-EI-style TACHI - HIRA-TSUKURI, 1 SHAKU 3 to 5 SUN WAKIZASHI - SHINOGI-TSUKURI, 1 SHAKU 6 to 8 SUN WAKIZASHI - Elongated, MU-SORI TANTO - may seem NAMBOKU-like KO-MOKUME HADA veiled in JI-NIE and the OEI mark of strong BO-UTSURI dancing and alighting through the JI. NIOI-DEKI KOSHI-HIRAKI GUNOME-CHOJI BA shows a TOGARI theme on a comparatively even running HAMON. The NIOI of some TOGARI may seem to reach for the UTSURI dance. There will be less YO and ASHI than MORIMITSU, and perhaps more TOBI and TAMA. BOSHI is en suite with the YAKIBA, and somewhat low (meaning deep YAKIBA). It is taught that YASUMITSU YAKIBA will be shallow in the lower becoming deeper and with greater dynamic expansion in the upper, but this is certainly not necessarily discernible. Early YASUMITSU, expect a strong CHU or HIRO width line - later the HAMON is MUROMACHI shallow. Fairly deep falling turnback hugs the MUNE and then abruptly turns. Later YASUMITSU: expect a short KAERI. YASUMITSU's KURI-JIRI, BIZEN NAKAGO seem curved. Some taper. A few earlier pieces will be signed with his two-character MEI and are deemed the earlier YASUMITSU as some late O-EI dates are seen as chronologically possible for the 2nd. Compare style and work. See MORIMITSU, foregoing. YASUMITSU BISHU OSAFUNE YASUMITSU BISHU OSAFUNE JU UEMONnoJO YASUMITSU |
NAGASA: 1 SHAKU 4.8 SUN MOTO-HABA: 9.6 BU SORI: 2 BU MOTO-KASANE: 2 BU NAKAGO: 3.5 SUN SUNNOBI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE, slightly curved, WAKIZASHI- length O-TANTO. A deeply cut SU-KEN rises from the lower pointing to a BONJI carved in the middle of the OMOTE. BO-HI ni SOE-BI walks the URA. OMOTE: BISHU OSAFUNE YASUMITSU URA: O-EI JU SHICHI NEN GATSU HI (1410) |
YASUMITSU(2) EI-KYO (f: YASUMITSU 1): SAKYOnoSUKE. Received NAGAI family name as title. Shallow curved, SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE TACHI and elongated SAKI, HIRA-TSUKURI O-TANTO. Often with BO-HI and small neighboring grooves. His steel is a particularly moist, standing ITAME with JI-NIE. The tightly defined KO-NIE will draw a serene and noticeably tranquil SUGUHA with gaps and KO-ASHI. SUGUHA BOSHI with KO-MARU and short KAERI. YASUMITSU BISHU OSAFUNE YASUMITSU BISHU OSAFUNE SAKYO-no-SUKE YASUMITSU BISHU OSAFUNE NAGA-I SAKYO-no-SUKE YASUMITSU YASUMITSU(3) BUN-AN: From BUN-AN 1444 to MEI-O 1492. BISHU OSAFUNE JU YASUMITSU YASUMITSU(4) EI-SHO: BISHU OSAFUNE YASUMITSU YASUNAGA EI-KYO (f: UEMONnoJO YASUMITSU): MOKUME HADA. NIOI-DEKI KO-MIDARE BA and GUNOME-CHOJI MIDARE BA in the style of his father. Possibly also signed YASUHISA. YASUNAGA BISHU OSAFUNE YASUNAGA YASUIYE O-EI (t: YASUMITSU): SUGUHA and GUNOME-CHOJI MIDARE BA. YASUIYE also in BUN-PO 1317, KAN-O 1350 and EI-WA 1375. BISHU OSAFUNE YASUIYE YUKIKAGE O-EI (f: INSHU YUKIKAGE): YUKI form: KO "Good Fortune." HYOEnoJO. Transferred from INABA in KA-KEI 1387. Either he, his son or another YUKIKAGE studies with YASUMITSU, see EI-KYO YUKIKAGE below. GUNOME KO-MIDARE resembles OMIYA MOROKAGE. See INABA BISHU OSAFUNE YUKIKAGE YUKIKAGE(2) EI-KYO (t: YASUMITSU): YUKI: KO "Good fortune." This mans' father is proposed as being INABA YUKIKAGE (YUKI form: KO "Crossroads"), which then potentials KA-KEI to O-EI HYOEnoJO YUKIKAGE as making these blades some 45 years later. Another source puts four generations in BIZEN. So there are unknowns. Weigh style: is it pre- O-EI, YASUMITSU influenced, or post-O-EI? Expect MOKUME HADA and the GUNOME-CHOJI BA of YASUMITSU from the EI-KYO smith. Note: O-EI - BO-UTSURI. See INABA YUKIKAGE BISHU OSAFUNE YUKIKAGE YUKIKAGE CHO-ROKU: SHINBEI. MUROMACHI BIZEN style GUNOME-MIDARE in NIOI, said to resemble NORIMITSU. BISHU OSAFUNE YUKIKAGE BISHU OSAFUNE SHINBEInoJO YUKIKAGE BIZEN-no-KUNI JUNIN FUJIWARA SHINBEInoJO YUKIKAGE SAKU |
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