Description
ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Comes with kimono or cotton bag. Comes with certificate of supein Nihonto. Comes with copy of Tokosusho. Comes with NBTHK Tokobetsu kicho Certificate for blade and koshirae.
Documentation
NBTHK — Blade
Classification: Tokubetsu Kichō Tōken
Status: Mumei, Echizen Bonryū
Date: February 20, 1967 (Shōwa 42)
Issuing body: Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai
NBTHK — Koshirae
Classification: Tokubetsu Kichō
Object: Koshirae
Literal description per certificate:
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Saya: black kuro-roiro lacquer
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Tsuba: round iron (maru-gata)
Date: February 20, 1967 (Shōwa 42)
Issuing body: Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai
Japanese Registration — Torokusho
Official Japanese prefectural registration certificate for an antique sword.
Legal administrative document with registration number and official seals, confirming the blade’s lawful registration as a nihontō.
The torokusho does not provide smith attribution or school attribution beyond registration.
School
Echizen Bonryū
An Edo-period school documented in Echizen Province.
The attribution is explicitly stated on the NBTHK Tokubetsu Kichō certificate of the blade.
Period
Middle Edo period (Circa 17th-18th)
Technical summary
Edo-period katana with a mumei blade attributed by NBTHK to the Echizen Bonryū school, certified as Tokubetsu Kichō Tōken.
Complete koshirae independently certified as Tokubetsu Kichō, consisting of a black kuro-roiro lacquered saya and a round iron tsuba, exactly as stated in the NBTHK documentation.
Blade officially registered in Japan with a prefectural torokusho.
