Any info on Osumi no jo MASAHIRO?

[runagmc]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anybody had any pictures of Osumi no jo Masahiro's work. I know he was suppose to be one of the best students of Horikawa Kunihiro and a 'sai jo saku' smith. I've only seen pictures of one of his swords. Here's the one I've seen,

 

Has anyone seen much of his work? I've been looking for a while and never see anything from him, while alot of the other smiths from the Kunihiro school seem to be fairly numerous. Anyway, I just wanted to see if I could get some info, if anybody wants to share...

[DanielLee]

http://www.tsuruginoya.com/mn1_3/f00018.html

 

Here's another one, had the fortunate chance to study this blade during a previous DTI. It was forged to resemble an osuriage blade.

 

Not many signed works by this smith as he mainly did dai saku for Kunihiro.

[runagmc]

Thanks Daniel, that looks like an impressive sword. Mabey that's why Masahiro seems to be somewhat overlooked today, because of the lack of work. For a smith of that period to be so highly ranked I would think there would need to be a good number of swords to judge. Are there any known features used to differentiate Kunihiro dai saku by Masahiro from genuine Kunihiro work?

[Ludolf Richter]

Hi Adam,there are some examples to be found,which I once added to the Hawley entry:

Nihonto Koza vol.IV p.20

Baur Collection D 2543

Token To Rekishi TTR 619

Fujishiro-Shinto-hen p.336 (only the Mei)

REI 1962 (which month?)

AITO (number?)

Cheers

Ludolf

[DanielLee]

Here's a few more i found

 

http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100496?d_lang=zh&s_lang=en&word=&class=6&title=&c_e=&region=&era=&cptype=&owner=&pos=97&num=1&mode=detail&century=

http://www.hyozaemon.jp/masahiro.htm

http://www.nipponto.co.jp/swords/KT119001.htm

http://www.choshuya.co.jp/sale/sword/0902/masahiro/masahiro.htm

 

Video

[runagmc]

Thanks, Daniel and Ludolf for the links and references. That katana in Tokyo museum is amazing...

[runagmc]

Brian, these are some composite pictures I put together from the links, so they will be here for future reference. If you don't think this is necessary feel free to delete the post...

here's a pic and oshigata of one more sword,

[DanielLee]

By the way, if I recall correctly, Masahiro is a jo jo saku rated smith.