Description
ITEM DESCRIPTION:
Comes with kimono or cotton bag. Comes with Authenticy certificate from Supein Nihonto. It comes with origami certificate.
Fantastic sword with a great history, signed ‘Chounsai Koretoshi’ and dated summer 1856. This date has great significance on the sword as it was the year that his father, the great blacksmith Munetoshi gave him the honourable title of Chounsai leaving him the family legacy. The sayagaki speaks of the history of the succession so it was possibly the first sword that Koretoshi made just after receiving the title from his father, which gives the sword a great and interesting history. Also enclosed is a handwritten certificate.
The school Tsunatoshi belonged to flourished at the end of the Edo period, training many swordsmiths who later became historically significant ones, such as Koyama Munetsugu, Takahashi Naganobu, Ishido Korekazu. Tsunatoshi excelled at forging Bizen-Den tradition swords with Choji Midare Hamon, an irregular, wavy tempering line. You can see this characteristic in this blade as well. Most of Tsunatoshi’s work reflects Bizen Den (One of the Five Japanese sword-forging traditions). In terms of Bizen Den tradition swords, it is said that Tsunatoshi school surpassed Suishinshi Masahide school.
He settled in Edo city around 1823, and he created most of his work. He started to run his school there and resided in the house of Uesugi family. It is said that he received a stipend from them. He received the honorable title Chounsai (長運斎) in the first year of the Bunka era (1854). And, he gave this title to his son Koretoshi (the second-gen Tsunatoshi) in 1856, and he got the new title Chojyusai (長寿斎). Chojyu means living a long life in Japanese.
An Authentic nihonto japanese sword, difficult to find in Europe or USA, without the consequent costs of importing from Japan or from Japanese sellers, which can increase the price of the sword by up to 30% and a months waiting for shipment and custom paperwork. A truly real nihonto to delight both new and experienced collectors.
All our swords are originals, imported from japan and Europe from the best dealers and collectors during many years of collection and passion.
Koshirae Full length: 100 cm
Nagasa: 70.0 cm. Sori: 1.5 cm.
