[EU] Nankai Tomotaka Wakizashi

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Hi,

 

for sale is a wakizashi in mountings from Nankai Tomotaka.

About the smith:

TOMOTAKA (朝尊), Tenpō (天保, 1830-1844), Yamashiro –

“Tomotaka” (朝尊), “Tomotaka tsukuru” (朝尊造),

“Yamashiro no Kuni Nishijin-jū Tomotaka” (山城国西陣住朝尊), “Tosa no Kuni-jūnin Gonnokami Tomotaka”

(土佐国住人権守朝尊), “Nankai Tarō Tomotaka” (南海太郎朝尊), “Morioka Tomotaka saku” (盛岡朝尊作),

“Yamashiro no Kuni Hataeda-gū Tomotaka” (山城国幡枝寓朝尊), Tarō Tomotaka tsukuru” (太郎朝尊造), “Ichijō

Horikawa-jū Nankai Tarō Tomotaka” (一条堀川住南海太郎朝尊), real name Morioka Tomotaka (森岡朝尊),

“Nankai Tarō” was his pseudonym, he was born in the third year of Bunka (文化, 1806) in Kuroiwa (黒岩) in Tosa´s

Takaoka district (高岡郡), he signed his name Tomotaka first with the characters (友朝), during the Bunsei era (文政,

1818-1830) he moved to Kyōto where he took care of a later generation Iga no Kami Kinmichi (伊賀守金道) and

supported the court noble Chigusa Arikoto (千種有功, 1796-1854) in forging swords, during the Tenpō era (天保,

1830-1844) he worked temporarily also in Edo´s Yushima-Tenjin (湯島天神), Tomotaka was a follower of the fukkōtō

movement and on par with Suishinshi Masahide when it comes to the theoretical aspect of the Japanese sword, he wrote

philosophically-inspired works like Tōken Gogyō Ron (刀剣五行論,

“The Five-Elements Theory at Swords”) or the Zōtō

Shinki Hō (造刀心気法, about “The Integration of Emotions at Forging Swords”), but he also compiled oshigata

collections like the Shintō Meishū Roku (新刀銘集録), he died in the second year of iō (慶応, 1866) in Kyōto at the age of

61, we know date signatures from the fifth year of Tenpō (1834) to the second year of Genji (元治, 1865), there are

katana, wakizashi and tantō extant, some also in kanmuri-otoshi-zukuri, his blades have mostly a magnificent sugata with a

wide mihaba and an elongated kissaki, Bizen-style blades have a more elegant sugata with a relative short nagasa, his hamon

is mostly a ko-chōji-midare in nioi-deki which reminds of Ōei-Bizen, sometimes also an ō-midare, hitatsura, or suguha in nie-deki

is seen, when he worked in the Yamashiro tradition, he hardened a chū-suguha in ko-nie-deki in combination with a

beautifully forged masame mixed with ko-mokume, in rare cases he also hardened a hitatsura, some blades show elaborate

horimono, the signature is quite angular and he also signed with an additional kaō, jō-saku

 

This Wakizashi is made in Bizen-den style and was made in Bunsei 13. Signature is: heian kujo-ju tomotaka.

Measurments:

Nagasa: 45.2ｃｍ 

Sori:  1.3ｃｍ

Moto-Haba: 2.84ｃｍ

 

It comes with Mountings, Bag and Tokubetsu Hozon Papers.

 

Price 3000 Euro (including shipping inside EU) 

 

For offers or questions please send me a PM,

 

Thanks

Oliver

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