Koto Kanetsune Wakizashi mounted in Shirasaya. Excellent flawless Blade in full polish with double gold foil Habaki
Nagasa 40 cm
Motohaba 26mm (width at base) Motokasane 6mm
Mino School
Tensho Period
KANETSUNE (兼常), Tenbun (天文, 1532-1555), Mino – “Kanetsune” (兼常), “Nōshū Seki-jū Kanetsune”
(濃州関住兼常), “Nōshū Seki no jū Kanetsune” (濃州関之住兼常), first name Heizaburō (兵三郎), later he used the
name Nando Suke´emon (納戸助右衛門), he was the ancestor of the later Mutō-Kanetsune line (武藤兼常), Oda
Nobunaga granted him in the seventh year of Genki two (元亀, 1571) the honorary title Seki-kaji-tōryō (関鍛冶頭領,
“head of all Seki smiths”), he was active from the early Tenbun until the Tenshō era (天正, 1573-1592), it is said that he
also worked in Fushimi (伏見) in Yamashiro province, he died in the tenth month of Tenshō 16 (1588), posthumous
Buddhist name Tennō Gentaku (天翁元沢), he made mostly somewhat longer and rather robust blades with a wide
mihaba and sakizori, the jigane is a dense mokume mixed with masame or a standing-out itame mixed with masame, the hamon
is a suguha with ō-midare as koshiba along the base of the blade, he also tempered a koshi-no-hiraita gunome-chōji with togiyaki,
in general his hamon are rather nie-laden
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