AS26340 Tanto: Hida-no-Kami Fujiwara Ujifusa(NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token)

Ordering Number: AS26340

Tanto in Shirasaya with Koshirae (NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token)

Signature: Hida-no-Kami Fujiwara Ujifusa 飛騨守藤原氏房

(We divide 4 sections for each sword as Saijyo Saku, Jyojyo Saku, Jyo Saku and Regular Saku).
This blade is ranked as Jyojyo Saku among the works of Hida no Kami Fujiwara Ujifusa.

Habaki: Single gold-plated habaki
Blade Length: 27.1cm (10.67in)
Curvature: 0.0cm (0.00in)
Mekugi-ana: 1
Motohaba: 2.64cm (1.04in)
Kasane: 0.61cm (0.24in)
Weight: 210g

Era: early Edo period, around the Keicho era (1596–1615)

Shape: slightly wide Tanto with Mitsumune carved with Dokko, a sword, 2 lines of Hi and Rendai.
Jigane: fine Koitame hada
Hamon: Nie-deki with a deep nioiguchi. The boshi is slightly pointed and returns in a long kaeri.

Features: Shinto: Wazamono: Jyo Saku: Mino
Hida no Kami Ujifusa was an Owari swordsmith counted among the Owari Sansaku, the three great swordsmiths of Owari Province. As a youth, Ujifusa moved from Mino to Owari together with his father, Wakasa no Kami Ujifusa, who served Oda Nobunaga as a swordsmith.　He served the Oda clan as a page (koshō). After his lord, Oda Nobutaka, was defeated in the succession struggle following Oda Nobunaga’s death and died, Ujifusa turned to swordsmithing and studied under his father, Wakasa no Kami Ujifusa, as well as Hōki no Kami Nobutaka. In 1592, he was granted the honorary title of Hida no Kami.

Koshirae:
Tsuba: iron base carved with rain and reed.
Fuchikashira: Wood-like designed iron fuhikashira carved with vines and a cicada.
Menuki: solid gold, carved with plants
Kozuka: iron base carved with landscape

NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Certificate
AoiArt estimation paper: Whole Oshigata

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