Hiromichi Katana long solid blade with very well forged Hada , Suguha Hamon. Inscribed with rare cutting test through 2 Deer antler with one stroke
Mounted in Excellent Tachi koshirae with beautiful red suaka / copper fittings. Dutch leather on the upper section of saya. Excellent katakiribori carving with Mon motifs. Iron Tachi Tsuba , Ebi menuki on gold same.with silk Ito
Katana , signed: Ōju Kuwana-jū Mishina Hiromichi kore o tsukuru, Kaei ninen tori sangatsu
‒ Rokkaku ryōdan nyōi Kuwabara Gonnosuke Sugawara Takayuki
(応需桑名住三品広道作之、嘉永⼆年⾣三⽉・⿅⾓両段如意桑原権之助菅
原⾼⾏) ‒
“Made on request by Mishina Hiromichi, resident of Kuwana, in
the third month of Kaei two (1849), year of the rooster. Kuwabara Gonno-
suke Sugawara Takayuki successfully severed with this blade both antlers
of a deer with a single stroke.”
Nagasa ~ 69.9 cm
The smith HIROMICHI 廣道 in Kuwana, Ise domain (now in city of Kuwana, Mie pref.), was born as a second son of smith Mishina Touemon HIROMICHI 三品藤右衛門廣道. His orriginal name is Toukurou 藤九郎 and named himself an adopted name of Gisensai 義専齋.
He apprenticed himself under his elder brother Mishina Hanbei HIROFUSA 三品半兵衛廣房 to their master Koyama MUNEHIRA and MUNETSUGU 固山宗平・宗次 to learn Bizen-den tradition of sword forging and set up his forge in city of Kuwana.
HIROMICHI (広道), Ise – “Gisensai Mishina Tōkurō Hiromichi” (義専斎三品藤九郎広道),
“Kuwana-jū Gidensai Mishina Hiromichi” (桑名住義伝斎三品広道), “Gidensai Mishina Tōkurō Hiromichi”
(義伝斎三品藤九郎広道), real name Mishina Tōkurō (三品藤九郎), he used the gō Gisensai (義専斎) and Gidensai
(義伝斎), son of Hiromichi who was active around Kaei (嘉永, 1848-1854) and the younger brother of the 1st gen.
Hirofusa (広房)
