[EU] Gassan Sadayoshi Tanto

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Hi,

 

i am reducing my collection and selling now a nice Tanto from Gassan Sadayoshi. Nagasa is about 19,5 cm. It comes in Shirasaya, a Box and NBTHK Hozon papers. A nice package I think. 

Price is 3000 Euro (including shipping inside EU)

About the smith (from Markus Seiko books):

 

SADAYOSHI (貞吉), Bunkyū (文久, 1861-1864), Settsu – “Ushū Murayama-gun no jū Gassan Sadayoshi Sesshū

Ōsaka ni oite kore o saku” (羽州村山郡住月山貞吉於摂州大坂作之, “made by Gassan Sadayoshi from the Mura-

yama district of Dewa province in Ōsaka in Settsu province”), “Naniwa ni oite Gassan Yahachirō Sadayoshi” (於浪花月

山弥八郎貞吉), “Naniwa Kinpō-jōhen ni oite Gassan Yahachirō Sadayoshi kore o tsukuru” (於浪花金宝城辺月山

弥八郎貞吉), “Naniwa-jū Gassan Sadayoshi” (浪華住月山貞吉), “Gassan Sadayoshi kore o tsukuru” (月山貞吉造之),

“Sesshū ni oite Ikutama-jū Gassan Sadayoshi kore o tsukuru” (於摂州住生玉月山貞吉造之), real name Gassan

Yahachirō (月山弥八郎), he was born in the first year of Tenmei (天明, 1781) in Takegawa (竹川) in the Murayama

district (村山郡) of Dewa province as oldest son of the local swordsmith Okuyama Yasaburō Sadachika (奥山弥三郎

貞近) who is regarded as reviver of the kotō-era Gassan school, at the beginning of the Bunsei era (文政, 1818-1830) he

moved to Edo and studied there under Suishinshi Masahide (水心子正秀), later, in the fourth year of Tenpō (天保,

1833), he moved to Ōsaka, he died on the 19th day of the second month Meiji three (1870) at the age of 90, we know

blades from the Bunsei to the end of the Keiō era (慶応, 1865-1868), the jigane is the Gassan-typical ayasugi-hada, a

masame in the Yamato tradition, or a dense mokume, the hamon can appear as suguha in nie-deki, as small dimensioned choji-

midare, or as koshi-no-hiraita midare, traditions say that his adopted son Sadakazu made some daisaku-daimei works when

Sadayoshi was in his later years, – The handed-down dates are somewhat uncertain. When Sadayoshi was allegedly born

in Tenmei one (1781), his father Sadachika was only ten years old. A theory says that Sadayoshi died not at the age of 90

but of 71 in Meiji three (1870) what would calculate his year of birth as Kansei two (寛政, 1800). Sadachika was then 30

years old and this seems to be more plausible. So maybe this all goes back to a wrong quotation of his age when he died

and the year of birth had never been transmitted and always just calculated back from Meiji three. jō-saku

 

For any questions or offers, write me pleas a PM,

 

Thanks

Oliver

 

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 I will be 12/13.6 in Utrecht, if somebody wants to have a look or buy it, please message me. 

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Price 2700 Euro (including shipping inside EU)