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Hot news about a meibutsu tanto.

The Tokyo National Museum collecction includes several daggers by Yoshimitsu,one of which can be presumed to be Okayama Toshiro.

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Please read [MUSEUM] # 643,April 2013 ,Published by The Tokyo National Museum.

The Bimonthly Magazine of the Tokyo National Museum.

Morita san,

Are you saying that this is a meibutu sword that was thought to have been lost or was unidentified, and is now considered to be the one in the museum?

The publication is available here: http://www.tnm.jp/modules/r_db/index.ph ... um&lang=en

Brian

Hi,

The summary in English.

Thanks for sharing the interesting article.

The magazine looks very good. Is it possible to subscribe to it?

Hi,

Yes,It will be published if examination of your the paper passes.

Author Mr.Motoki Sakai is a curator of The Tokyo National Museum.

Most most most enjoyable reading.

The part about the Ichijo saku ensuite kowakizashi koshirae was the bonus for those of us focusing on fittings collecting.

I am curious to see the koshirae.

Hi,

Japanese newspapers reported this news at last on May 26.

It means that the members of NMB had known about Okayama Toshiro earlier than the newspapers in Japan.

Morita san,

Sounds like the newspapers there, would do better to become members of the NMB, and get the info fastest :lol:

Thank you for your efforts to let us know so quickly.

Brian

Great news !

The Tanto will be Kokuho !?!?

Hi,

Probably,a candidate of important cultural property in the future.(?) I don know.

PartII

The book[Zusetsu Token Meibutsucho] (Author:Tsujimoto Tadao, Pub1970) is must read book for research of meibutsu swords.

But a photograph and an Oshigata of Kosai-Nagamitsu((香西長光)) do not appear on this book(on page 331).

So i upload here an oshigata of Meibutsu Kosai Nagamitsu.

No one interested in the oshigata of Kōsai Nagamitsu.

But,this oshigata is very very rare!

I pasted a photo copy of this oshigata on the page 331 of the book [Zusetsu Token Meibutsucho].

Looks like it was made as a wakizashi....

Thank you Morita San

After reading Chris' comment about it looking like it was made as wakizashi/ kotachi, I drew this up from the oshigata to try to imagine it as an ubu tachi around 3 shaku... it looks oddly sakisori which would be unusual... it makes me wonder if this sword was made shorter, like Chris said...