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Excellent Kanesada Shodai (First Generation) Katana. Very well forged blade Suguha Hamon.Original Shirasaya, With newly made Koshirae.. High quality fittings Shakudo and gold Fuchi Kashira, Shakudo menuki of floral motif. Iron Tsuba with Sakura and Tree Motif. Tokubetsu Hozon Certificate
Katana, signed: Kiritsuke-mei :
Echigo no Kami Kanesada (Shodai) (越後守包貞「初代」) (1st generation)
Anʼei yon kinoto-hitsujidoshi jūgatsu nijūichinichi, ō-karigane kore o kiru
(安永四⼄未年⼗⽉廿⼀⽇、⼤鳫⾦切之) ‒ “Cut on the 21st day of the tenth
month Anʼei four (1775), year of the sheep, through a body at the height of
the armpits.”
Nagasa ~ 71.2 cm
According to the result of the Shinsa committee of our society, we judge this work as authentic
and rank it as Tokubetsu-Hozon Tōken.
KANESADA (包貞), 1st gen., Manji (万治, 1658-1661), Settsu – “Kanesada” (包貞), “Sesshū-jū Fujiwara Kanesada”
(摂州住藤原包貞), “Echigo no Kami Fujiwara Kanesada” (越後守藤原包貞), “Echigo no Kami Kanesada”
(越後守包貞), real name Yamada Heidayū (山田平太夫), he was a successor of Yamato´s Tegai Kanesada lineage
(手掻包貞), he went to Ōsaka to study there under the 1st gen. Iga no Kami Kanemichi (伊賀守包道) who came
originally from Yamato too, a blade from the eighth month Kanbun four (1664) bears the signature “Echigo no Kami
Kanesada,”. i.e. had had received that title at the latest in 1664, dense ko-itame, some blades also show zanguri-hada, there
is masame in the shinogi-ji, suguha-hotsure in nioi-deki or nie-laden gunome-midare in tōran manner, the bōshi has hakikake, ryō
wazamono, jō-saku
