CHIKUZEN SA

KOKUHO HIDEYOSHI SA TANTO National Treasure NAGASA: 7.8 SUN MOTO-HABA: 7 BU O-SA NAKAGO: 2.9 SUN KASANE: 1.9 BU HIRA-TSUKURI, MITSU-MUNE TANTO. Slight SORI.
KO-ITAME with a masterful and fine KO JI-NIE.
The HAMON has slight NOTARE to a "Crowded-hills"
GUNOME-MIDARE with jutting rises and TOGARI peaks.
KO-ASHI creates a louder definition on the O-MOTE,
where the GUNOME has great vitality. HOTSURE and
complex NIOI fog and shroud the URA. ARA-NIE HOTSURE
and KINSUJI embellish like flung lacquer screen.
MUNE-YAKI clings to the back. The MONOUCHI of the
URA shows his famous YAKI-KUZURE, where a burst of
ARA-NIE and NIOI decays frozen above a HAKO-shaped
trough. YAKIDASHI is FUKASHI and crowds (typical
and a mark). The drama is refined. Gently curved, two ANA UBU NAKAGO - URA: CHIKUSHU JU OMOTE: SA

__________________ KO-CHIKUZEN RYOSAI KO-AN 1278 "The Ten Students" ______________|___ KO-CHIKUZEN SAIREN EI-NIN 1293 ______________|___ KO-CHIKUZEN JITSUA KA-GEN 1303 __________|____ True name: SAEMON-SABURO O-SA "Great SA" GEN-O 1319 _______ _________ ________ ________________|_________________ | ____|____ ____|____ ___|____ |_ | | YOSHIHIRO YOSHISADA YUKIHIRO SA(2) O-EI 1394 | | - SHO-HEI 1346 - ________________| |________ ___________ ___________|___ | | _____|__ ____|____ HIRADO KUNIFUSA TEI-WA 1345 | | SADAFUSA YOSHIZANE ____________|___ | | EN-BUN 1356 EI-TOKU 1381 HAKATA KUNIMITSU BUN-WA 1352 | |___________________________________________ | __|___________________ - brothers - ________|____ | YASUYOSHI(1) "YUKIONI" SHO-HEI 1346 AKI KUNIMITSU KO-EI 1342 | | SABURO-SAEMON ________|____ | |_____ __________________________ AKI NOBUMITSU EN-BUN 1356 | | ____|____ - NAGATO - ____|____ | | YASUYOSHI(2) EI-TOKU 1381 YUKITOSHI O-AN 1368 | |___________________________ _______________________ | __|_____ ___|_____ ___|____ | YASUHIRO(1) TEI-WA 1345 SADAYOSHI SHO-HEI 1346 YASUSADA | __|_____ ___|____ EN-BUN 1356 | YASUHIRO(2) MEI-TOKU 1390 SADAHIDE O-AN 1368 | ___|____ | HIDESADA SHI-TOKU 1384 (HIZEN in | _____________|_____ O-EI 1394) | HIRADO SA HARUYOSHI O-EI 1394 | _____________________________ ______________________________| ___|____ ____|____ YUKIHIRO(1) SHO-HEI 1346 MUNEYOSHI TEI-JI 1362 |_________ _____|______ ___|____ ___|____ OAN SADAYUKI O-AN 1368 SADAYUKI HIROYUKI |____________________________ | SHO-HEI 1346 ____|___ __________|__ | TOKIYUKI TEI-JI 1362 OISHI IYENAGA |______________________ _________________________ O-EI 1394 ___|____ ___|____ ___|____ KUNIHIRO SHO-HEI 1346 YUKIHIRO(2) EI-TOKU 1381 YASUYUKI |________________________ _______________ O-AN 1368 ___|____ ___|____ _____|___ HIROYASU SHO-HEI 1346 YASUHIRO YUKIYOSHI ___|________ O-EI 1394 EN-BUN 1356 AKI SADAHIRO _________ ________ TEI-JI 1362 MITSUHISA KO-EI 1342 YUKISUYE BUN-WA 1352 ______ ________ _________ ________ ________ TOSHIA SADAKUNI TAKAYOSHI HIROSADA YUKIZANE KO-AN 1361 - TEI-JI 1362 - O-AN 1368 _____ _______ ________ ________ _________ ________ ________ YOSHI HIROIYE SANEYUKI KUNIHIRO SADAYOSHI KUNITADA SADAHIRO - O-EI 1394 - - EI-KYO 1429 -

"The Ten Students" O-SA GEN-O (f: JITSUA): SAEMON SABURO. Called SA. "The Great SA." He was born KEN-JI 3, 1277 and died in EN-BUN 1356. There is much conjecture that the name SA could be a nick name of YASUYOSHI that was taken as a school title for both smith and school. Certainly both SA and YASUYOSHI were actively promoting the school and its style throughout the southern provinces. TANTO: Narrow with little curve. 7 to 8 SUN. His HAMON is stronger than his student's refinements. A varied NOTARE line contains GUNOME of different height. The GUNOME will tend to TOGARI on the tops. There will be HOTSURE from the HABUCHI. SUNAGASHI may run. "SA" on the OMOTE and fine-lined "CHIKUSHU JU" on the URA. TACHI: Made large. Wide blade, thick MUNE - possibly MARU, deep SORI, and "extended" KISSAKI. NOTARE O-MIDARE. Some UCHIZORI and KANMURI-OTOSHI found. TSUYO-GANE (strong) blue steel in KO-MOKUME with UZU and YUBASHIRI- HADA. Steel is clear. YUAI UTSURI (temper-blued HADA) having JI-NIE and CHIKEI. SA, and his school following, fashioned a NOTARE-shaped line holding GUNOME or CHOJI within. GUNOME rises poke up, of which, some are TOGARI - this is CHIKUZEN. The HAMON of his students are more refined. SA's art was crafted at the furnace of MASAMUNEs' SOSHU-DEN. YAKI-KUZURE is a result and a trait. A third definer is KOSHIBA where figures tend to crowd or become FUKASHI in the lower. NIE and NIOI is FUKASHI and bright. SUNAGASHI may run. INAZUMA and KINSUJI. SA YAKIBA recap: - CHIKUZEN HAMON - YAKI-KUZURE - KOSHIBA BOSHI: TSUKI-AGE "thrust-up" TOGARI - can be "Swept." Falls directly. Or SUGU with KO-MARU. (SAKI-ZORI? Think later-SA) Tokubetsu Juyo Sa See Ten Students

NAGASA: 2 SHAKU 5.8 SUN MOTO-HABA: 1.5 SUN O-SA SORI: 9 BU SAKI-HABA: 7.2 BU NAKAGO: 7.1 SUN Named for it's Snow on the Bay Saya - a prize of Iyeyasu's.
SHINOGI-TSUKURI MARU-MUNE. Deeply curved with FUNBARI and
elongated CHU-KISSAKI. BO-HI resolve in MARU-DOME. A sword
of strength.
Masterful ITAME HADA with JI-NIE and CHIKEI.
YAKIBA: OMOTE falls smoothly from a slightly KUZURE widening
of the MONOUCHI, to be overtaken by an insistent NOTARE from
the complex mid. HOTSURE chases SUNAGASHI through broken
GUNOME NOTARE-MIDARE while ASHI quarrels for the inside.
Bright NIE rides NIOI-FUKASHI.
TOGARI with slight KAERI comes of a wide MIDARE-BOSHI on
the OMOTE. YAKI-KUZURE pries a gaping bay on TACHI-URA.
KUZURE seems to exhaust the MONOUCHI where ropes of
SUNAGASHI lay slack.
TACHI-MEI SURIAGE NAKAGO has the fine-lined "CHIKUSHU JU"
followed by his characteristically stronger "SA." This
sword has the distinction of being his only signed DAI-TO.

Bunkazai Sa Tanto

NAGASA: 7 SUN 3 BU  - 22cm
MOTO-HABA:  7.2 BU  -  2.2cm
KASANE:     1.8 BU  -   .5cm
NAKAGO:     2.8 SUN -  8.5cm

ITAME-HADA has JI-NIE and CHIKEI. 
Pointed tops shape GUNOME and KO-NOTARE, grouping to 
different heights. In NIOI and KO-NIE with KINSUJI. 
BOSHI is a strongly brushed TSUKI-AGE.

Multi-mounted, two MEKUGI-ANA and his unique MEI:

        OMOTE, Large Character
                                                 SA
         URA, Small Characters
                                   CHIKUSHU JU

Sa Hiroyasu

Sa Hiroyasu

Nagamaki-Naoshi with high Shinogi-taka. A thin Hi rides the Shinogi line.
O-Itame and Mokume mix together. There is JiNie and Chikei.
A Sa Kuzure breaks up O-Midare Gunome Ba of Ko-Nie and deep Nioi-Fukashi with Ashi, Yo and striating Sunagashi Nijuba. Nie Hotsure blows from figures.
Boshi is Saagari Yakizume in brushed Ko-Nie Hotsure
O-Suriage Mumei Nakago has two Mekugi-ana.
Hiroyasu moved to Aki. See Aki Sa

YOSHISADA TEI-WA (f: O-SA): TACHI are seen. TANTO are wide with little SORI. Running ITAME with large CHIKEI. JI-NIE covers. Shallow ASAKI-NOTARE with GUNOME mix or NOTARE GUNOME-CHOJI. SUNAGASHI. O-MIDARE GUNOME-MIDARE of NIE. BOSHI: TSUKI-AGE "Thrust-up" with deep KAERI. YOSHIZANE EI-TOKU (t: O-SA): O-MIDARE GUNOME-MIDARE - SUNAGASHI. YOSHIHIRO SHO-HEI(t: SA):Running ITAME with CHIKEI. NIE-KUZURE dresses NOTARE GUNOME. KINSUJI and SUNAGASHI play.