{"id":28454,"date":"2025-09-25T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/product\/28454\/as25393-katana-higo-kami-kuniyasu-nbthk-hozon-token\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T01:13:26","slug":"as25393-katana-higo-kami-kuniyasu-nbthk-hozon-token","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/en\/product\/28454\/as25393-katana-higo-kami-kuniyasu-nbthk-hozon-token\/","title":{"rendered":"AS25393 Katana: Higo Kami Kuniyasu (NBTHK Hozon Token)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katana in Shirasaya with Koshirae (NBTHK Hozon Token)<\/p>\n<p>Inscription: Higo Kami Kuniyasu \u80a5\u5f8c\u5b88\u56fd\u5eb7<\/p>\n<p>We divide works in to Saijo Saku, Jyojyo Saku, Jyo Saku,and Regular Saku.<br \/>\nThis piece is ranked as Jyojyo Saku for Mumei.<\/p>\n<p>Habaki: gold-plated double habaki<br \/>\nBlade Length: 76.0cm (29.9in)<br \/>\nCurvature: 1.2cm (0.5in)<br \/>\nWidth at Base(Motohaba): 3.3cm (1.3in)<br \/>\nWidth at tip(Sakihaba): 2.2cm (0.9in)<br \/>\nThickness: 0.7cm (0.3in)<br \/>\nBlade Weight: 835g<br \/>\nEra: the early Edo period around Kanbun era.<\/p>\n<p>Shape: long, wide and thick blade with small curveture and long kissaki.<br \/>\nJigane: Koitame hada with Jinie<br \/>\nHamon: Nioi base fist-shaped Chojimidare.<\/p>\n<p>Features: Shinto: Owazamono: jyosaku: Settsu<br \/>\nHigo no Kami Kuniyasu, son of the first-generation Kawachi no Kami Kunisuke, is a distinguished master of the Osaka Shint\u014d school. This blade exhibits a kobushi-gata ch\u014dji hamon\u2014\u201cfist-shaped ch\u014dji\u201d\u2014in the manner of his elder brother, the second-generation Kunisuke.<\/p>\n<p>Koshirae:<br \/>\nTsuba: big iron tsuba carved with a design of an elephant and a big tree.<br \/>\nFuchikashira: Shakudo base carved with a dragon<br \/>\nMenuki: a design of Chinese characteres.<br \/>\nKozuka, Kogai: Shakudo nanako base carved with a chrysanthemums. <\/p>\n<p>NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Certificate<br \/>\nNBTHK Hozon Certificate for Kozuka and Kogai<br \/>\nAoi-Art estimation Paper<br \/>\nwhole Oshigata<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"23%\" height=\"23%\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"23%\" height=\"23%\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"23%\" height=\"23%\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393koshirae.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393koshirae.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18%\" height=\"18%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393paper-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393paper-1.jpg\n\" alt=\"\" width=\u201c60%\" height=\u201c60%\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393paper-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393paper-2.jpg\n\" alt=\"\" width=\u201c60%\" height=\u201c60%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393sayagaki.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393sayagaki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"30%\" height=\"30%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393_p.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aoijapan.com\/img\/sword\/2025\/25393_p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\u201c70%\u201d height=\u201c70%\u201d \/><\/a>\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katana in Shirasaya with Koshirae (NBTHK Hozon Token) Inscription: Higo Kami Kuniyasu \u80a5\u5f8c\u5b88\u56fd\u5eb7 We divide works in to Saijo Saku, Jyojyo Saku, Jyo Saku,and Regular Saku. This piece is ranked as Jyojyo Saku for Mumei. Habaki: gold-plated double habaki Blade Length: 76.0cm (29.9in) Curvature: 1.2cm (0.5in) Width at Base(Motohaba): 3.3cm (1.3in) Width at tip(Sakihaba): 2.2cm [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-28454","product","type-product","status-publish","hentry","product_cat-katana-en","product_cat-sword-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/28454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sword-auction.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}