1st Generation Ippo katana.
Excellent Massive blade with large active Hamon beautifully forged Hada
Mounted in a superb Koshirae with certifed fittings
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
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
