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An excellent Katana by Nobuyoshi well forged blade with no Kizu, Blade is in good full polish undulating active Hamon, Mounted in good quality Koshirae.
NOBUYOSHI (信吉), 1st gen., Shōhō (正保, 1644-1648), Yamashiro – “Shinano no Kami Minamoto Nobuyoshi”
(信濃守源信吉), “Shinano no Kami Fujiwara Nobuyoshi” (信濃守藤原信吉), “Taiai Shinano no Kami Nobuyoshi”
(高井信濃守信吉), “Rakuyō-jū Takai Shinano no Kami Fujiwara Nobuyoshi” (洛陽住高井信濃守藤原信吉),
“Yamashiro no Kuni Fujiwara Nobuyoshi” (山城国藤原信吉), “Yamashiro no Kuni-jūnin Nobuyoshi” (山城国住人
信吉), real name Takai Kinzaburō (高井金三郎, the first name also reads Kanesaburō), he came from the Mishina
school and carved also a chrysanthemum onto his tangs, he used first the clan name Fujiwara and changed later to
Minamoto but there exist also early works which are already signed with Minamoto, his younger brother was Echizen no
Kami Nobuyoshi (越前守信吉) with whom a joint work exists, we know date signatures from the Shōhō era to the
twelfth year of Kanbun (寛文, 1672), excellently tempered suguha or gunome in nie-deki with a wide nioiguchi, wazamono,
chūjō-saku
NOBUYOSHI (信吉), 2nd gen., Enpō (延宝, 1673-1681), Yamashiro – “Shinano no Kami Fujiwara Nobuyoshi”
(信濃守藤原信吉), “Rakuyō Shinano no Kami Minamoto Nobuyoshi” (洛陽信濃守源信吉), according to a theory it
was the 2nd gen. who bore the real name Takai Kinzaburō (高井金三郎), he lived in Kyōto´s Aburanokōji (油小路), we
know blades from the Enpō to the Genroku era (元禄, 1688-1704) and he also worked in Ōsaka, chūjō-saku
