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Kondo Isami's "Kotetsu"


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Credit to Paul Martin for sharing this post.

 

"According to today’s Sankei Shinbun, Kondo Isami’s (Shinsengumi) beloved ‘Kotetsu’ may have been discovered. The blade is apparently a gimei Okimasa (2nd Gen. Kotetsu), but the possibility that it was Kondo’s is high."

 

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Shinsengumi seems to be flavour of the week, here's a blade in Koshirae with a stated link to Souji Okita, currently at a prestigious gallery in London:

 

https://japanesegallery.com/katana-mumei-attributed-kashu-kiyomitsu-with-hozon-token

 

:)

 

Indeed, I was reading about this blade earlier this week.

 

I'm (maybe wrongly) amazed that such an historical artifact can be found outside Japan.

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Regarding François’s interesting link above, the expression Bukotsu 無骨 today generally means rustic, rough and ready. In the context of the sword there is a set phrase 人間無骨 Ningen Mukotsu, which goes back to the inscription on a famous Jumonji Yari wielded by Mori Nagayasu, cutting through bodies as if they had no bones.

 

Izumi no Kami Kanésada

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