Shinkai"Osaka Masamune"
Dai-Saku Dai-Mei to Izumi-no-Kami
Kunisada (father)
Early work. Soshu style This sword has a family history and
is published in the
Horikawa Kunihiro Toso no
Deshi Tachi -
"Famous students of Kunihiro" by Ise Torahiko
Translation
of Horikawa Kunihiro
Tosono Deshitachi
KATANA
MEI IZUMI-no-KAMI
FUJIWARA KUNISADA
KUNZAN
Homma,formost authority on the
Japanese sword of the last century,
states that the "tremendous [nuance] or
exceptional power of this sword shows
(Shinkai's) fully completed seating as a
master. While we see the influence of
his teacher, Horikawa Kunihiro, this
sword exhibits strong differences from
Kunihiro's ordinary Sugata: CHU-KISSAKI
and having YAKIDASHI, rounded and spire
GUNOME and KO-MARU-BOSHI. We see a
starkly superior accomplishment in
CHIKEI and unusally strong KINSUJI -
this, at the same time of his master.
This is more an expression of MASAMUNE
or NORISHIGE."
HORYO
-
NAGASA:
2 SHAKU, 1 SUN, 4 BU
SORI:
6 BU, 8 RIN
MOTOHABA:
9 BU, 4 RIN
SAKIHABA:
6 BU, 6 RIN
KISSAKI-NAGA:
1 SUN, 05 BU
NAKAGO:
5 SUN, 6 BU
NAKAGO-ZORI:
Slight
KEIJYO
SHINOGI-TSUKURI,
IHORI-MUNE, slightly short with
comparatively high SORI. NAKA-MINE
(CHU-KISSAKI).
KITAE: ITAME flows.
JI-NIE is thick and bright and CHIKEI
is mixed in.
HAMON: GUNOME and
CHOJI mixed in a slight NOTARE; and
has ASHI and YO. Deep NIOI and NIE
abounds. There is SUNAGASHI and
KINSUJI.
BOSHI: Slight
MIDARE-KOMI, HAKIKAKE returns long and
wild.
NAKAGO: UBU,
UE-KURI JIRI on top/ wide YASURIME
cross each other, one
MEKUGI-ANA.
Seven letters
as "IZUMI-NO-KAMI - FUJIWARA KUNISADA"
The
smaller blade has the particularly
prominent JI and HA that shows the
superior and known technique of
this smith (2nd Kunisada/Shinkai).
KUNISADA
was the youngest student of HORIKAWA
KUNIHIRO. After KUNIHIRO's death, he
moved to OSAKA and is known as the
pioneer of OSAKA smiths. Of the numbers
of OSAKA swords, his are most.
We
see DAI-SAKU among these. Peculiar to
these DAI-SAKU, the first three
characters: "IZUMI-NO-KAMI" are made
small, as compared to the last four
characters: "FUJIWARA KUNISADA." This
circumstance is specific to DAI-SAKU of
the KAN-EI KU (Kan-ei 9 - 1632) time
period.
This
sword is DAI-SAKU of the 2nd Generation
KUNISADA (Shinkai).
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