Japanese sword Touken Komachi, Katana, Shirasaya Taikei Naotane

Touken Komachi

Katana, Shirasaya

Taikei Naotane

[ Signature ] omote : 出羽国住人大慶庄司直胤(花押）　ura : 文政三年中秋

[ Size ] Blade length 83.5cm (2 shaku 7 sun 5 bu 5 rin), sori 1.9cm (6 bu 2 rin), moto haba base width 3.20cm, moto kasane base thickness 0.73cm, saki haba tip width 2.01cm, saki kasane tip thickness 0.50cm, one megugi hole, blade weight 970g, total length of shirasaya white sheath 114.5cm

[ Period ] Late Edo period, 1820.

[ Province ] Dewa

[ Feature ]
Form : Shinogi-zukuri. maru-mune. Both mihaba and kasane are ordinal. Relatively high sori attached. There are some differences between moto-haba and saki-haba. Chu-kissaki extended form.
Nakago : Ubu. Yasurimes are o-suji-kais and kesho. Saki is kuri-jiri. One hole.
Jigane : Ko-itame-hada well grained. Jinie attached. Pale midare-utsuri comes to be appeared.
Hamon : Gunome. Choji and togari-bas mixed. Ashis, yos, which point reverse direction, tobi-yaki and deep nioi appeared. Ko-nie attached.
Boushi : It runs in midare-komi. Saki turns in ko-maru form. A little, mune has been tempered.

[ Highlight ] Taikei Naotane was born in 1779 in Yamagata, Dewa Province, and was known as Minobei, and learnt sword making under Suisinshi Masahide. He studied swordsmanship under Suishinshi Masahide. He was transferred from Chikuzen Daijo to Minosuke and died in 1857 at the age of seventy-nine. He practised the theory of restored swordsmanship advocated by his master Suishinshi Masahide, and specialised in Bizen and Soshu styles. He is also known to have travelled to Izu, Enshu, Ise, Shinano, Kyoto and other places to fabricate swords, and to have engraved the name of the place where he was stationed on the stem. This work has well-defined base iron, with a faintly diffuse reflection, a deep nioi flavour, and a blade pattern with a slight nie (boiling) and a reverse pattern in some places, suggesting that it was made in accordance with the old Bizen-den style. Among the works of Taikei Naotane, a large naginata (long blade) in the Shinshin-to Taikan is described as having a blade length of "2 shaku 8 sun (84.1 cm)" with an oshikata on the stem, and this work, which is a sword with a blade length of over 2 shaku 7.5 sun, is the longest sword of Taikei Naotane designated as an important sword so far. Its imposing presence was the talk of the town at the exhibition of newly designated important swords held this year (2023).

[ Conditions ] There are some areas of old sharpening that are slightly cloudy, but it can be preserved and appreciated in its current state.

[ Attachments ] Habaki( suaka-ji, gold foiled, single), shirasaya, bag of shirasaya and 68th Important Sword Certificate "第六十八回重要刀剣証明書"(Designated Reiwa4 (2022) by NBTHK).

[ Item number ] A010623 [ Price ] JPY 8,000,000- (shipping and insurance fee are not included)

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