Poa
1st Generation Ippo katana.
This is an Excellent Massive blade with large active flamboyant Hamon beautifully forged Hada. Rare to find another superb Ippo katana like this Sword
Mounted in a superb Koshirae with High Quality certified fittings, Hozon certificate for Kozuka and Kogai and also the Tsuba.
Shirasaya with Sayagaki
IPPŌ (一峯), 1st gen., Keian (慶安, 1648-1652), Ōmi – “Ippō” (一峯), lived in Sasaki (佐々木) in Ōmi province, he
belonged to the Ōmi-branch of the Ishidō school (石堂), suguha, gunome-midare, chōji-midare, suguha mixed with midare,
notare-midare, also with nie and sunagashi, it is said that he also used nanban-tetsu, wazamono, jō-saku
IPPŌ (一法), Genroku (元禄, 1688-1704), Musashi – “Tsushima no Kami Tachibana Ippō” (対馬守橘一法),
“Tsushima Nyūdō Tachibana Ippō” (対馬入道橘一法), according to a theory this was the nyūdō-gō of the Ishidō smith
Tsushima no Kami Tsunemitsu (常光), other see him as a separate smith, there exists a date signature of the eleventh
year of Genroku (1698) with the age of 73 which would support the theory that this was a pseudonym of Tsunemitsu
that he used in his later years, other sources list Ippō also with another gō, Chikyū (知休), which was in turn used by
Tsunemitsu too
