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A Nice House warming Gift - Tokubetsu Etchu Ko Uda


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In the chaos of closing on a new house, packing, cleaning, showing and working through the sale of my current residence I found myself a nice treat.

A beautiful blend of Soshu and Yamato as well as a splendid peach tree(my favorite motif along with plum) koshirae as icing ontop. Strong correlation to Etchu Norishige and Yamato Shizu Kaneuji places it in early nanbokucho/late kamakura.
 

Special thanks and big thank you to Ray.

http://swordsofjapan.com/project/ko-uda-in-koshirae/

https://nihontoclub.com/smiths/NOR312

https://nihontoclub.com/smiths/KAN416

 

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I've got a naginata Naoshi with a very pronounced hada identical to that.

The Fuchi kashira remind me of the work of Murakawa Hiroyoshi a little. He died in 1841/2 active from around the turn of the century.

I was looking at a couple of his works just this morning.

Is the Fuchi perhaps signed?

Lovely BtW

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Mike,

The sword looks fine, but I really envy you the koshirae. I've been collecting fittings with the peach theme -- not very common, and as you likely know an attribute of Seiobo, Queen Mother pf the West, in whose garden grew the peach tree of immortality. I have tsuba, kozuka, kogai, and menuki, but I've never seen a fuchi-kashira with this theme, until now.  Very rare. Congratulations.

 

Les

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What an old romantic naga-wakizashi! There is Nie-suji, which is said to be the "crawl of slugs", so it is certainly Uda-school.
The 23.5-inch O-suri-age is very similar to my own sword. I suspect that it is not a modification of WW2, but a modification for the two-handed saber of Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).
Admiration.

 

An example of two-handed saber of Russo-Japanese War.

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/493690629

 

 

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Thanks Yas! Yes, when Ubu this Ko-Uda was very likely a magnificent early nanbokucho 80+cm tachi then shortened several times. Probably an important and wealthy non-samurai who was forced to shorten it last just below the 60cm regulation in the Edo Period.

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Thanks Steve, like a school boy on Christmas I have been eagerly awaiting its arrival and it did not disappoint, not in the slightest. Both the shirasaya/sunagi by Tirado and original set of Edo period koshirae are immaculate and marry one another perfectly. I spent several hours studying the blade this afternoon, I can already tell this one will take many years to fully explore. Every inch is jam packed with so much detail, its a 700 year old masterpiece I will cherish for a very long time! 

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