Gassan School Sadahide Kinnoto - First Blade

[Jake6500]

As a regular resident of the Tosogu section I just purchased my first blade (about 2-3 hours ago at time of writing this post) and wanted to share with the forum!

 

The blade is a hozon certified kinnoto (imperial royalist sword) from the Gassan school dated August 1863 by Unzenshi Sadahide.

It is a very large katana with a 75cm blade and 27cm nakago. The blade has a lot of weight and thickness to it, I'd say about twice as heavy as an average katana.

 

Aside from the size and heritage of the sword, I really like the lengthy kissaki as well.

The blade should make for a fun koshirae project in the future!

 

Let me know your thoughts, I am still a novice when it comes to blades!

Here are a few photos:

 

 

 

[Lareon]

Imposing and beautiful blade.  Congratulations enjoy!

[oli]

From Seskos book:

SADAHIDE (貞秀), Ansei (安政, 1854-1860), Settsu –

“Settsu no Kuni Sadahide” (摂津国貞秀), “Sesshū

Amagasaki-jū Sugimoto Hironoshin Sadahide” (摂州尼ケ崎杉本広之進貞秀), real name Sugimoto Hironoshin

(椙本広之進), he also signed the character for “Sugi” (椙) in the variant (杉), he used the gō Unsenshi (雲仙子) and it is

said that he was the son of a certain Kido Yoshizō Unsen (城戸吉蔵雲仙), he came originally from Dewa province

where he signed according to tradition with “Ushū Kidō Sadahide” (羽州城戸貞秀), later he moved to Kyōto and

became a student of Gassan Sadayoshi (月山貞吉) in Ōsaka, he worked mostly in the style of his master, chūjō-saku

 

would be interesting to have the full translation of the signature

[eternal_newbie]

11 minutes ago, oli said:

would be interesting to have the full translation of the signature

 

平安住雲仙子貞秀作 Heian-jū Unzenshi Sadahide saku
文久三年八月日吉 Bunkyū san-nen hachigatsu (August 1863) Hiyoshi [cut off at this point]

[Sebuh]

 pretty! enjoy it