AS25341 Jumonji Yari:Houei Toko Sa Yukihide Zo No Meiji 3 Nen 8 Gatsuhi(Great rare item)(NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token)

Ordering number:AS25341

Jumonji Yari in Shirasaya with Koshirae.(NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token)

Signature :　Houei Toko Sa Yukihide Zo No
Meiji 3 Nen 8 Gatsuhi(Great rare item)
豊永東虎左行秀造之

(We divide 4 sections for each sword as Saijyo saku, Jyo-jyo saku Jyo saku and regular saku)
This sword belongs to Saijyo saku ranking.
The blade was polished.　by　one of the best polisher.
Blade length :　20.0　cm or 0.656 inches.
Sori :cm or inches.
Mekugi : 　1
Kasane : 0,89cm or inches.
The weight of the sword 280grams.
Era : Meiji 3rd August.
Shape : Jumonji Yari.
Jigane :Itame hada well grained with jinie attach and chikei work wonderful Hokoku Jigane.
Hamon :Nie deki suguha and double hamon and also rathe thick nioikuchi. In hamon, sunagawa and kinsuji work.

Koshirae:
Saya: Painted in black.
Tsuka:Raden-wrapping.

Special feature:Sa Yukihide was born in Asakura Hoshimaru-no-Sato, Joza-gun, Chikuzen Province for 10 years as a son of Ito Matabei Morishige.And he himself has appointed the 39th generation of Chikuzen Samonji, and there is a work inscribed on it。 In the first year of Tenpo, he learned the training technique of Shimizu Hisayoshi, a master of Hosokawa Masayoshi. He went up to Edo again, changed his residence to the Tosa clan’s residence in Fukagawa Sunamura, and made making swords. Returning to Tosa, it is named Touko. His sword was finished in the 3rd year of the Meiji era, and his later years are said to be a brewery in Yokohama with his son Ikuma until his death at the age of 75 in the 20th year of the Meiji era.

From Aoi Art:t is this Jyumonji Yari that many sword makers dream of making and seeing at least once. Many sword makers challenge. It is not something that can be done easily. He may have challenged this Jyumonji Yari when he learned that he would become Haito-rei in August of the 3rd year of the Meiji era and a few months later. First of all, Taihai is really good. Twice Jigane is a wonderful jigane reminiscent of anothern part of country, using Itame hada well-crafted Jinie with Chikei and an old sword Jigane that doesn’t seem to be Shinshin to. Also, hamon is not just suguha, but Nijyu ba is applied and sunagasi and kinsuji are working in the blade.
I have never seen Jyumonji Yari from Sa yukihide and it is a rare item. Please strongly purchase it as a work that can be displayed in museums.

NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token
Aoi Art estimation paper: whole Oshigata.