AS21284-Katana: Oite Koto Nihon So Yoshihara Kunie Seitan Kore

Katana in Shirasaya(NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Token)
Signature : Oite Koto Nihon So Yoshihara Kunie Seitan Kore
Showa 18Nen 6Gatsu Kissyoubi Nakagome Kiyoshi Shoji.
於皇都日本荘吉原国家精鍛之

(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.
Habaki :Silver single habaki.
Blade length : 67.7 cm or 26.65 inches.
Sori :1.8 cm or 0.740 inches.
Mekugi : 1
Width at the hamachi:3.31 cm or 1.30 inches.
Width at the Kissaki: 2.51 cm or 0.98 inches.
Kasane : 0.9cm or 0.35 inches.
The weight of the sword 895 grams.
Era : Showa 18 Nen 1943.June.
Shape: The blade is wide and thick with deep sori
and longer kissaki and
left Ababa gorgeous sword.
On the front, Tamaoi dragon is engraved, and on the backside, Ken and Dokko are engraved.
Jigane: Koitame hada well grained with jinie attach clear nice texture.
Hamon: Konie Deki Choji Midare and gunome Midare mixed and Ashi
inside of the Hamon, there are Sunagashi, kinsuji work.

Special feature: Kuniie (Yoshihara Katsuyoshi) was born in Ibaraki
prefecture in 1893.
He was a member of Kasama Ikkansai Shigetsugu and entered the
Japanese sword training school established by Kurihara Akihide in
1932.
He became the chief swordsmith of Tokiwamatsu Swordsmith in 1945.
He is also an assistant at the Japanese Sword Research Institute,
Faculty of Metallurgy, Kyushu University.
In 1938, he established the Nihonso Tanto jyo (making sword factory)
and made swords.
In 1945, he was commissioned by the High Officer of the First Army
Factory of the Tokyo Army, and was also active as an Army
swordsmith instructor.
He was good at Soden Bizen den’s style. He died in 1970.
His grandchildren, Kuniie and Yoshindo, are also honored as excellent
modern swordsmiths.

From Aoi Art : Yoshihara Kuniie, the current Mukansa sword maker, and Kuniie, the father of Yoshindo, are the owners of the highly acclaimed technical power of the swordsmith who was active during the war.
Hamon is a work of Nioikuchi’s deep Habuchi’s soft Gunome Cyoji
Midare, where Ashi often enters in Hamon, and Sunagashi and kinsuji
work well.
It is a work in which Ken and Dokko are beautifully carved on the backside of Tamao Ryu, which is dense on the blade. It is a work that
received an order in 1943 and worked hard to complete the sword
carving, and the result is excellent.
Nihon so Kuniie’s works have rarely appeared recently, so we can expect
price increases for works with carvings in the future. Please purchase it.

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