SOLD: NBTHK papered Wakizashi in Shirasaya
May 30, 2023 17:02:24 GMT
Post by vfl on May 30, 2023 17:02:24 GMT
Purchased on this here forum a little while back. Thinning out the herd a bit. Price is $SOLD shipped CONUS. Need more pictures or info, just ask.
Lots of character. Attributed to Shigaseki Kanenobu (see below) Muromachi era wakizashi. Pretty chonky for a wak (my other wak feels tiny compared). Blade length is 16.75in.
A bit from the internets on the smith:
KANENOBU (兼延), Meiō (明応, 1492-1501), Owari – “Kanenobu” (兼延), son of Muroya-Seki Kaneari (兼在), he
worked first in Oyama (小山) in Mino province and moved later to Shiga (志賀) which was located in the YamadaShōnai (山田庄内) area of Owari, this local context is the origin of the school’s name Shiga-Seki (志賀関), during the
Meiō era, he also worked in the castle town of Sasaki (佐々木) in Ōmi province, that means it is assumed that he moved
to Owari province via a stopover in Ōmi, unfortunately there are no date signatures extant, only the Tenbon Mei Zukushi
(天文銘尽) shows a katana that is dated Bunmei 14 (文明, 1482), and the Kōsei Kotō Meikan (校正古刀銘鑑) shows one
from the third year of Meiō (1494), there exists the theory that there were actually three generations Kanenobu who
were active over Eishō (永正, 1504-1521) to the Tenbun era (天文, 1532-1555), but from the point of view of
workmanship and meiburi it is possible that there was just one Kanenobu who enjoyed a long life, old sources date the
Shiga-Seki line back to the Nanbokuchō era but this is a misinterpretation which bases on a confusion with the
Nanbokuchō smith Naoe-Shizu Kanenobu (直江志津兼延), the katana and wakizashi of the Shiga-Seki line have a wide
mihaba and a somewhat elongated kissaki but we also know more slender, shorter and elegant blades, tantō are rather
small dimensioned and have mostly uchizori, the jigane is a somewhat blackish itame that is mixed with masame and also
shirake can appear, the hamon is a gunome in nie-deki mixed with togari-gunome and sunagashi, some works show also an ōgunome-midare that tends to hitatsura and we also know chū-suguha and suguha with koshiba, some blades have a subdued
nioiguchi and fine nie, the tip of the tang is a ha-agari kurijiri, the yasurime are on katana and wakizashi either gyaku-takanoha
or ō-sujikai, in rare cases also katte-sagari are seen, on tantō the yasurime are higaki, the signature is always a niji-mei, ōwazamono, jō-saku
worked first in Oyama (小山) in Mino province and moved later to Shiga (志賀) which was located in the YamadaShōnai (山田庄内) area of Owari, this local context is the origin of the school’s name Shiga-Seki (志賀関), during the
Meiō era, he also worked in the castle town of Sasaki (佐々木) in Ōmi province, that means it is assumed that he moved
to Owari province via a stopover in Ōmi, unfortunately there are no date signatures extant, only the Tenbon Mei Zukushi
(天文銘尽) shows a katana that is dated Bunmei 14 (文明, 1482), and the Kōsei Kotō Meikan (校正古刀銘鑑) shows one
from the third year of Meiō (1494), there exists the theory that there were actually three generations Kanenobu who
were active over Eishō (永正, 1504-1521) to the Tenbun era (天文, 1532-1555), but from the point of view of
workmanship and meiburi it is possible that there was just one Kanenobu who enjoyed a long life, old sources date the
Shiga-Seki line back to the Nanbokuchō era but this is a misinterpretation which bases on a confusion with the
Nanbokuchō smith Naoe-Shizu Kanenobu (直江志津兼延), the katana and wakizashi of the Shiga-Seki line have a wide
mihaba and a somewhat elongated kissaki but we also know more slender, shorter and elegant blades, tantō are rather
small dimensioned and have mostly uchizori, the jigane is a somewhat blackish itame that is mixed with masame and also
shirake can appear, the hamon is a gunome in nie-deki mixed with togari-gunome and sunagashi, some works show also an ōgunome-midare that tends to hitatsura and we also know chū-suguha and suguha with koshiba, some blades have a subdued
nioiguchi and fine nie, the tip of the tang is a ha-agari kurijiri, the yasurime are on katana and wakizashi either gyaku-takanoha
or ō-sujikai, in rare cases also katte-sagari are seen, on tantō the yasurime are higaki, the signature is always a niji-mei, ōwazamono, jō-saku
Thanks for lookin