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OSHU ARIMASA AN-WA 968
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OSHU ARIMASA AN-WA 968 ____________________ ______________________|_________ __|______ ___|___ ___________|___ ___|___ MASATSUNE(1) ARITADA KAWACHI ARIYUKI ARIKUNI | EI-EN 987 KAN-NIN 1017 __________| CHO-KYU 1040 | ____|____ ____|___ | SANEYOSHI SANENORI KO-WA 1099 | SHO-TOKU 1097 ____|____ | SANETSUNE GEN-EI 1118 |_____________________________ ____________ __________________ __|______ ____|____ ___|___ | MASATSUNE(2) CHO-WA 1012 MASATSUGU TSUNETO JI-AN 1021 | |____________ ___________| | __|______ ____|____ ___|___ ___|_____ | TSUNEYASU MASATSUNE(3) TOCHIKA TSUNEFUSA O-TOKU 1084 | | EI-SHO 1046 JI-RYAKU 1065 ___|_____ | |___________________ TSUNEMOTO KYU-AN 1145 | __|_______ ___|_____ ___|_____ | TSUNEMITSU YOSHIMUNE TEN-KI 1053 SUGETSUNE NIN-AN 1166 | | SHO-TOKU 1097 ___|____ ___|____ | | MUNENAGA KO-HEI 1058 KORESUKE KEN-KYU 1190 | |_______________________ __________________________ | __|_____ ___|______ ____|____ | NORINOBU HO-GEN 1135 MITSUTSUNE HO-AN 1120 MITSUNORI | __|_____ ___|______ HO-AN 1120 | KANENAGA HEI-JI 1159 TOSHITSUNE GEN-RYAKU 1184 _________ | __|_____ TSUNEFUYU | IYETSUGU BUN-JI 1185 TEN-EI 1110 | __________________________ _______________________ __________| __|_______ ___|____ ____|_____ TSUNETSUGU CHO-KYU 1040 MASAZANE KAN-NIN 1017 TOSHITSUNE |___________________ ______________________ SHO-RYAKU 990 __|_______ ____|____ ____|____ CHIKATSUNE TSUNENORI KAN-JI 1087 SANETSUNE SHO-RYAKU 1077 | SHO-RYAKU ____|____ ____|___ | 1077 TSUNEHISA TEN-EI 1110 SANENORI EI-KYU 1113 | ________________________| | ___|____ ____|___ | SANETADA NIN-PYO 1151 SANESADA KYU-AN 1145 | ______________________| | ___|____ ____|___ | NARIKAGE SHO-AN 1171 SADANORI JI-SHO 1177 | ________________________| | _____________|____ ____|___ | ICHIMONJI NORIMUNE SHO-GEN 1207 NOBUSANE GEN-RYAKU 1184 |_______________________ _____________________ ___________ __|______ ____|____ ____|____ ____|____ CHIKAKANE HO-AN 1120 CHIKAFUSA KO-WA 1099 TSUNENORI TSUNEMOTO |_________ ____|____ CHO-JI 1104 EI-KYU __|______ __|______ CHIKANORI DAI-JI 1126 1113 CHIKAMURA KANECHIKA |_________________________ __|_____ KYU-AN 1145 ____|____ ____|____ MURAMORI CHIKAZANE HEI-JI 1159 CHIKAKANE KEN-PO 1213 ____|____ GEN-RYAKU 1184 CHIKASADA GEN-RYAKU 1184 |
Note: See KO-BIZEN technicals for appraisal overview MASATSUNE EI-EN 987, the first, to MASATSUNE HO-GEN 1156: In the 5th generation _______________________________________ MASATSUNE EI-EN (f: OSHU ARIMASA): Contemporaries, MASATSUNE and TOMONARI are often compared. Classic study holds three generations of MASATSUNE in the earlier school, EI-EN 987, CHO-WA 1012 and CHO-GEN 1028. Present examples are late HEIAN to early KAMAKURA styles. An early work should portray a narrow KO-MIDARE BA. The expected MASATSUNE YAKIBA from extant pieces of HO-GEN 1156 to HEI-JI 1159 is wide and may vary in height with long undulations. YO dots the interior of KO-MIDARE GUNOME patterns to mark a near CHOJI. ASHI and YO drop from a smooth but gaped, and occasionally jutted line. MASATSUNE MEITO - EI-EN SUGATA with thin YAKIBA? or - GEN-RYAKU SUGATA with wide YAKIBA? There are several theories: The line started with OSHU TARO MASATSUNE in EI-EN, OSHU ARIMASA the father and continued, or the line started before GEN-RYAKU. MUTSU and KO-BIZEN smiths are known to have had interchange and their work can be starkly similar, a fact always alluded to in reference. MASATSUNE: HEIAN SUGATA, either mildly or deeply curved KOSHIZORI TACHI where the arc relaxes through the upper to find a small KO-KISSAKI. Blades are narrow. Tightly forged and standing KO-ITAME with MOKUME is veiled in JI-NIE and may show UTSURI. Sound steel is a special characteristic. Color may have a dark feeling. Note: O-HADA reminds one to consider TOMONARI. CHU-width KO-MIDARE GUNOME HA with ASHI and YO. BOSHI will be wide and smooth to an even flowing KO-MARU and short KAERI. NAKAGO is not as well finished as TOMONARI and will have a rounded as opposed to flattened KURIJIRI. Two-character MEI have little difference between generations. Appraisal weighs SUGATA and age of NAKAGO as to time. |
Masatsune
- Kokuho Masatsune - Kokuho Nagasa: 78.4cm Moto-Haba: 3.4cm Shinogi-Tsukuri, Ihori-mune, swelling Niku Koshizori Tachi with full Chu-Kissaki. Ko-Itame Nashiji Hada has Ji-Nie, Chikei and standing Midare-Utsuri. Ko-Nie Deki and tight Nioi-Guchi Gunome Choji-Mdare Ba with Ashi and Yo. Midare-Komi Boshi to Yakizume. Ubu, Kurijiri Nakago has one Mekugi-ana. Masatsune |
KOKUHO MASATSUNE NAGASA: 77.6cm SORI: 2.6cm SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE, narrow-bladed KOSHIZORI with KO-KISSAKI. KO-ITAME HADA with CHIKEI and thick JI-NIE over standing UTSURI. Deep NIOI and MURA KO-NIE KO-MIDARE BA with ASHI and YO. There are many UCHINOKE along its wide YAKI-HABA. BOSHI is NOTARE-KOMI to KO-MARU and HAKIKAKE KAERI. UBU with one MEKUGI-ANA. Signed in the center just below.
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KOKUHO MASATSUNE KOKUHO MASATSUNE National Treasure
Tightly knit KO-ITAME HADA has CHIKEI tracing MOKU grain. JI-NIE veils the surface. Gaps and bays wait at the YOKOTE while flattened UMA "Horse-teeth" KO-CHOJI press into a long swell that escapes the MONOUCHI. KINSUJI and SUNAGASHI constantly herd the flock. The varying mid smooths briefly before NIOI and KO-NIE FUKASHI join KO-ASHI in a chaotic fight for the lower. An UTSURI aurora pushes the line off the MACHI. CHU-SUGU BOSHI rises to a KO-MARU turn. The curved KURIJIRI UBU NAKAGO has four MEKUGI-ANA and his two-character MEI. MASATSUNE |
Masatsune
- Kokuho Masatsune - Kokuho Nagasa: 77cm Moto-Haba: 3cm Shinogi-Tsukuri, Ihori-mune, swelling Niku Koshizori Tachi with full Chu-Kissaki. Ko-Itame Hada has Ji-Nie, Chikei and Jifu-Utsuri. Ko-Nie Deki Saka Choji-Midare Ba has Sunagashi and Kinsuji. Overall Asaki-Notare line widens in the mid. Chu-Sugu Nie-Kuzure Boshi. Maru Kaeri. Suriage Kijimomo Nakago has three Mekugi-ana. Masatsune |
 KOKUHO MASATSUNE NAGASA:
77.9cm A possession of the TADAZANE branch of the TODA HANSHU of UTSUNOMIYA in SHIMOTSUKE. SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE, HIRA-NIKUTSUKI, KOSHIZORI TACHI with KO-KISSAKI rising directly. KO-ITAME HADA has a thin veil of JI-NIE and MIDARE-UTSURI hugging the ridge. A lazy CHU-SUGUHA in tight NIOI is broken with the intrusions of KO-ASHI and YO - MURA KO-NIE KO-CHOJI MIDARE BA drawing through the YAKIBA with SUNAGASHI and KINSUJI. KO-MARU BOSHI at the head of a solid YAKI-SUGU. Four holes,two are filled. Signed at the center.
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TSUNEYASU EI-SHO (f: MASATSUNE 2): Work to JI-RYAKU 1065. MASATSUNE(3) CHO-GEN: 3rd master. See MASATSUNE preceding. TSUNEMITSU SHO-TOKU (f: TSUNEYASU): From EI-SHO 1046. MASATSUNE direct line. Strongly standing KO-MOKUME with JI-NIE. KO-MIDARE BA or KO-CHOJI dress the long undulations of a varying height, MASATSUNE style. NIE HIRO-SUGUHA and CHOJI-MIDARE BA. TSUNEMITSU MEI force careful placing of date. Possible signatures arise from SHO-TOKU 1099, HO-GEN 1156 and KAN-KI 1229. MITSUTSUNE HO-AN (f: TSUNEMITSU): MOKUME. KO-CHOJI MIDARE. TOSHITSUNE GEN-RYAKU (f: MITSUTSUNE): MASATSUNE School man. 1st GEN-RYAKU era TOSHITSUNE. CHIKEI still finds paths in ITAME that has JI-NIE. KINSUJI carves clefts in KO-NIE and NIOI-FUKASHI KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA. NAKAGO: His two-character TACHI-MEI sits below the ANA. TSUNETO JI-AN (f: MASATSUNE): Work to EN-KYU 1069. TOCHIKA JI-RYAKU (t: MASATSUNE, f: TSUNETO): Perhaps a son of MASATSUNE. NIE JI-BA adorns KO-MIDARE BA or KO-CHOJI MIDARE BA in KO-NIE. TOCHIKA TSUNEFUSA O-TOKU (f: TSUNETO): Work to TEN-SHO 1131. TSUNEMOTO KYU-AN (f: TSUNEFUSA): From CHO-JI 1104. KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA in NIE. SUGETSUNE NIN-AN (f: TSUNEMOTO): KORESUKE KEN-KYU (f: SUGETSUNE): Twenty-four GOBAN - 12th month. Work to KAN-GEN 1243. OSAFUNE JU. Father was KO-BIZEN MASATSUNE School SUGETSUNE of the TSUNETO line. Made early KAMAKURA KO-KISSAKI TACHI SUGATA. Strong MOKUME with MIDARE-UTSURI. Small patterned KO-CHOJI MIDARE. See FUKUOKA. YOSHIKANE AN-TEI (t: KORESUKE, f: YOSHIKANE): To KEN-CHO 1249. TACHI with wide, almost IKUBI-KISSAKI. KO-MIDARE BA with NIE JI-BA. See FUKUOKA. TOSHITSUNE SHO-RYAKU (t: MASATSUNE): CHOJI BA. MASAZANE KAN-NIN (f: MASATSUNE): Work to JI-RYAKU 1065. TSUNETSUGU KAN-NIN (f: MASATSUNE): Work to JI-RYAKU 1065. Same as ARIMASA and SHIGEHIRO. TSUNENORI KAN-JI (f: TSUNETSUGU): KO-BIZEN MASATSUNE School SANETSUNE SHO-RYAKU (f: TSUNETSUGU): To O-TOKU 1084. KO-KISSAKI, strong FUNBARI, KOSHIZORI TACHI. CHIKEI in standing MOKUME HADA is veiled in JI-NIE. KO-NIE KO-MIDARE of CHOJI with ASHI or O-CHOJI MIDARE. BOSHI is generally YAKIZUME. Large MEI. SANETADA NIN-PYO (f: SANENORI): MOKUME HADA. KO-CHOJI MIDARE BA with ASHI. SANESADA KEN-KYU (f: SANENORI): MOKUME. KO-CHOJI MIDARE BA. NARIKAGE SHO-AN (f: SANESADA): From EI-MAN 1165 to GEN-RYAKU. NOBUSANE GEN-RYAKU (f: SADANORI): FUKUOKA. Work from KYU-JU 1154 to KAN-KI 1229. ITAME HADA. CHOJI-MIDARE. See FUKUOKA ICHIMONJI - NOBUFUSA School NORIMUNE SHO-GEN (f: SADANORI): SHO-GEN GOBAN. See BIZEN FUKUOKA ICHIMONJI - NORIMUNE School TSUNENORI CHO-JI (f: CHIKATSUNE): TSUNEMOTO EI-KYU (f: CHIKATSUNE): KO-MIDARE BA. CHIKAMURA KYU-AN (t: CHIKAKANE): KANECHIKA KYU-AN (f: CHIKAKANE): MOKUME. KO-MIDARE BA in NIE. IYETADA YO-WA: Worked into the mid century. KO-ITAME with JI-NIE. KO-CHOJI KO-MIDARE BA. KORETOMO GEN-RYAKU: To KA-TEI 1235. MOKUME. KO-MIDARE of CHOJI BA. |
Tsunemitsu Goto Museum Tsunemitsu Nagasa: 66.4cm Shinogi-tsukuri, Ihori-mune, strong Tachi Sugata with Large Bo-Hi that takes up the whole of the Shinogi-Ji. Ko-Kissaki. Strongly knit Ko-Mokume has JiNie and Chikei. Gently Midare-Utsuri is bright white. Rolling Choji-Mdare in an Asaki-Notare line. Suriage Nakago with three Mekugi-ana. Signed in the lower: Tsunemitsu |
Tochika
- Kokuho Tochika - Kokuho Nagasa: 78.5cm Moto-Haba: 3.4cm Shinogi-Tsukuri, Ihori-Mune, strong Niku Koshizori, Funbari, Ikubi-Kissaki Tachi. Itame of standing Mokume Hada and standing Midare-Utsuri. Slightly Asaki-Notare Hoso-Suguha that is Ko-Midare of Ko-Ashi where Nijuba and Shimaba are developed. Nioi and Nie are tightly defined over Sunagashi and Hakikake. Asaki-Midare Komi Boshi with Maru Kaeri. Ubu, curved Haagri Kurijiri Tachi Nakago has one Mekugi-ana. Signed in the lower. Tochika |
TSUNEYASU GEN-RYAKU: Work to SHO-JI 1199. MOKUME. MIDARE BA. CHIKATSUNE GEN-RYAKU (f: TSUNEYASU): MOKUME. KO-CHOJI MIDARE. CHIKAKANE GEN-RYAKU (f: CHIKANORI): Work to HO-JI 1247. Narrow to normal width, that is: late HEIAN to early KAMAKURA KO-BIZEN SUGATA of deep KOSHIZORI, FUNBARI TACHI where the upper straightens. ITAME HADA has JI-NIE and standing UTSURI. An even width ASAKI-NOTARE KO-GUNOME and KO-CHOJI KO-MIDARE BA tumbles to KO-MIDARE in the lower. NIE YAKIBA finds a SUGU BOSHI that resolves to YAKIZUME for a KAERI. Small signature near the MUNE. KANECHIKA KEN-RYAKU (f: CHIKAKANE): MOKUME HADA with thin NIE JI-BA over KO-MIDARE BA in NIE. SANETSUNE SHO-JI: Made late HEIAN to early KAMAKURA KO-KISSAKI, strongly FUNBARI, KOSHIZORI TACHI and TANTO. CHIKEI in standing ITAME that shows JI-NIE. KO-NIE KO-MIDARE BA with ASHI that defines KO-CHOJI. YAKIZUME BOSHI. MEI is large cut with fairly thin strokes and centered. TAMEKIYO GEN-RYAKU (f: MUNEYORI): MOKUME. KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI. |
KOKUHO SANETSUNE KOKUHO SANETSUNE NAGASA:
89.4cm SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE, has wide power with its BO-HI. Deep KOSHIZORI YUDAI TACHI of the mid to late HEIAN. Wide IKUBI-KISSAKI. KO-ITAME HADA is veiled in JI-NIE. Narrow YAKI-HABA of KO-NIE KO-MIDARE BA with ASHI and YO. Much UCHINOKE rides atop uneven figures of KO-GUNOME. ASAKI-NOTARE BOSHI finds MARU-KAERI. Long, strong, UBU NAKAGO has two MEKUGI-ANA and signed in the upper.Sanetsune |
HOGEN MASATSUNE
_________ MASATSUNE(5) HO-GEN 1156 - See EI-EN MASATSUNE(1) for ____|____ relevant notes, including HO-GEN MASATSUNE(5). MASATSUNE GEN-RYAKU 1184 |_______________________ ____|_____ ___|___ _______ TOSHITSUNE SHO-GEN 1207 TSUNETO TOCHIKA KEN-CHO 1249 ____|_____ RYAKU-NIN 1238 |___________ TOSHITSUNE(2) _________ _________ ___|__ __|_ BUN-RYAKU 1234 TSUNEMORI MASATSUGU TOMASA TOYA _________ - BUN-RYAKU 1234 - BUN-EI 1264 EI-NIN 1293 TSUNEKIYO NIN-JI 1240 TOSHITSUNE SHO-GEN (t: MASATSUNE): Early KAMAKURA style begins to give way to the strong upper of mid-KAMAKURA. ITAME with JI-NIE. Standing HADA shows CHIKEI, KO-BIZEN style. KINSUJI in NIE KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA. Wide two-character MEI in thin STROKES. TOSHITSUNE BUN-RYAKU (f: TOSHITSUNE): 2nd KAMAKURA TOSHITSUNE. KO-ITAME HADA has JI-NIE and standing MIDARE-UTSURI. KO-NIE KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA has KINSUJI in the style of his father. MASATSUGU BUN-RYAKU: MASATSUNE line. KO-ITAME HADA has JI-NIE. A SUGU line of KO-MIDARE BA. MASATSUGU in KO-AN FUKUOKA, NITTA SAKON SHOGEN MASATSUGU in KA-GEN 1303 and OSAFUNE in TEI-JI 1362. TSUNEMORI BUN-RYAKU: MASATSUNE line. Narrow, KO-KISSAKI TACHI. Running ITAME has JI-NIE. KINSUJI plays in SUNAGASHI that cuts NIJUBA to an ASAKI-NOTARE undulation of KO-MIDARE based KO-CHOJI BA with ASHI and YO in NIE. SUGU BOSHI. Large two-character MEI where the MORI is a SOSHO "grass" style. MORISUYE KA-TEI: KA-TEI is a transition between early and ] mid-KAMAKURA KO-ITAME HADA with standing MIDARE-UTSURI. Early: NIOI-DEKI KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI becomes a SUGU CHOJI-MIDARE in KO-NIE with time. TSUNETO RYAKU-NIN (f: MASATSUNE): Standing ITAME with O-HADA has JI-NIE. An even KO-MIDARE shows SUNAGASHI and KINSUJI which cut a KO-CHOJI in side the line. TSUNEKIYO NIN-JI: SUGUHA with KO-ASHI. CHIKAZANE HO-JI: NIE KO-MIDARE and KO-CHOJI BA. TOCHIKA KEN-CHO Descendants of KO-BIZEN TOCHIKA. Work to BUN-EI 1264. Made fancy mid-KAMAKURA style CHOJI-MIDARE BA. TOMASA BUN-EI (f: TOCHIKA): One theory has him the grandson of GEN-RYAKU MASATSUNE. Narrow TACHI. KO-ITAME with NIE JI-BA over KO-MIDARE BA. |
ARIYUKI GEN-RYAKU 1184: ARIYUKI SAKU. SANEYOSHI SHO-AN (f: ARIYUKI): Work to SHO-GEN 1207. KAGEYASU YO-WA (t: ARIYUKI): MOKUME. KO-MIDARE and CHOJI BA with ASHI. NORITSUNE TEN-EI: Work to GEN-RYAKU 1184. CHOJI-MIDARE. TAMETSUGU KEN-RYAKU: Work to KEN-CHO 1249. KO-MOKUME. KO-MIDARE with ASHI and KO-CHOJI BA. HIROTSUNE BUN-RYAKU: SUGUHA with ASHI. SADATOSHI KA-TEI (f: HIROTSUNE): NOBUCHIKA KEN-NIN: KO-NIE KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA. MOTOKANE TEM-PUKU: KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA. HIDECHIKA NIN-JI: KO-NIE KO-MIDARE of KO-CHOJI BA. |
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