Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection
Important Japanese Swords and Armour from the Paul L. Davidson Collection
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A Koyama Munetsugu school katana
Signed Tairyusai Sokan kore o tsukuru (made by Tairyusai Sokan)
Edo period, dated Ansei rokunen rokugatsu hi (a day in the 6th month 1859)
Sugata [configuration]: shinogi-zukuri, iori-mune, tori-zori, chu-kissaki
Kitae [forging pattern]: fine itame hada mixed with mokume
Hamon [tempering pattern]: ko-choji midare, bright nioigucchi, some ashi
Boshi [tip]: midare komi with long turn back
Nakago [tang]: ubu, ha-agari kurijiri, sujikai yasurime, single mekugi ana
Habaki [collar]: single clad, copper-gilt
In shirasaya [plain wood scabbard]
Koshirae [mount]: the handachi style koshirae with black lacquer ishime ground, the iron fuchi-kashira carved in relief with hoshi-zakana (dried fish), shakudo gilt menuki in the form of kadomatsu (New Year’s pine decoration), the square iron tsuba pierced at each corner
Nagasa [length from kissaki to machi]: 71.8 cm., 28¼ in.
Saki-haba [width at the yokote]: 2.5 cm., 1 in.
Moto-haba [width at the machi]: 3.2 cm., 1¼ in.
Accompanied by a certificate of registration (kanteisho), no. 17635 issued by the Nihon Token Hozon Kai [Society for the Preservation of the Japanese Sword], dated Heisei 24 (2012).
Art of the Samurai: The Paul L. Davidson Collection (New York, 2023), p. 56.
Tairyusai Munehiro (died in 1883), also known as Sokan, was one of the best students of Koyama Munetsugu, generally regarded as one of the most important swordsmiths of the later Edo period. Many of Munehiro’s blades were made in the style of his master, but he later developed his own style.
