Kashu kagemitsu

[Paz]

Hi all. 

 

Doing some research on a blade I'm interested in and made the novice mistake of thinking that Kashu kagemitsu was related to Osafune kagemitsu. Of the Bizen tradition. 

 

Has anyone here got more info on  Kashu Kagemitsu. I'm reading conflicting info that he was of the Kagemitsu school, or that he was part of the Sanekage line. 

 

He was active late 14th century muromachi era. His work uses apparently black Jigane, and the school is noted to have one of their blades given as a gift to Date masamune. 

 

Thanks 

Regards 

[Gakusee]

Paz, time to invest in Sesko’s swordsmith book and Nihonto Koza…..

[Paz]

Thank you Michael,  I was using conissour of the Japanese sword book by Nagayama, and was struggling to find this information. 

 

I appreciate the effort you put posting that, I will try and get hold of sesskos book. 

 

Kind regards 

Paz 

[Gakusee]

Connoisseur’s is very good at teaching high level info about schools and smiths. It is best for grasping periods, period changes, broader schools dynamics, etc. It is a great volume but as you get into more obscure or second and third-tier smiths, you need something more comprehensive like Koza (many volumes) by Kanzan or Markus’s Swordsmiths…

[Rivkin]

Connection between Bizen and Kaga is not accepted per se, but I personally believe there was one. Not only the names like Norimitsu, Kiyomitsu etc. which might have something behind them, but Kaga (as some others) at times produced full blown Bizen imitations, with crab claws and what's not. One of the problems of Kaga appreciation is difficulty determining "Kaga style" per se - yes there is Tomoshige which are consistent with the first generation, but they are not too common. Yes, it goes back to Sanekage, but you almost never see full blown Norishige school imitation, Tomoshige tends to look a bit more Kinju then anything Norishige-based per se.

They are sort of eclectic Muromachi phenomenon through and through, even during the late Nambokucho, with no solid "roots".

[FZ1]

  On 5/9/2022 at 8:28 PM, Paz said:

I will try and get hold of sesskos book. 

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Paz - Get the electronic version in PDF format; it makes searching (inc. kanji) so much easier & quicker.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon