Very well forged Echizen Kanetane Tanto with Shirasaya and very nice Koshirae Shakudo Cross Motif Tsuba, Very finely detailed Shakudo Bird motif Menuki. Excellent signed Kozuka with Motif of 3 Minogame set in a very fine Nanako ground. Shakudo Habaki, Black Urushi lacquered saya
KANETANE (兼植), 1st gen., Keichō (慶長, 1596-1615), Echizen – “Echizen no Kuni-jū Kanetane”
(越前国住兼植), “Echizen no Kuni Kita no Shō-jū Kanetane” (越前国北庄内住兼植), student of Echizen Kanenori
(兼法), priest name Dōhon (道本), he lived in Ichijōdani (一乗谷), Echizen-Seki school, he is counted as 1st gen.
Echizen-Kanetane, other sources see the Tenbun-era Kanetane who moved from Mino to Echizen as 1st gen., anyway,
this Keichō-era Kanetane died in the 14th year of Kan´ei (寛永, 1637) at the age of 68, notare mixed with gunome-chōji or
also a hiro-suguha, ryō-wazamono, chūjō-saku
