Juyo Ko-wakizashi Hasebe for sale

Brano · Monday at 09:57 AM

For sale Ko-wakizashi from Hasebe school
Blade passed Juyo 50
Details of the blade from setsumei

Measurements

nagasa 31.4 cm, sori 0.6 cm, motohaba 2.9 cm, nakago-nagasa 9.0 cm, only very little nakago-sori

Description

Keijo: hira-zukuri, mitsu-mune, wide mihaba sunnobi, thin kasane, shallow sori

Kitae: rather standing-out itame that is mixed with mokume and nagare-masame and that features plenty of ji-nie and chikei

Hamon: nie-laden and wide notare with a wide and overall rather subdued nioiguchi that is mixed with gunome, ashi, yō, kinsuji, sunagashi, and along the fukura with tobiyaki, yubashiri, and muneyaki, making this area tend to hitatsura

Bōshi: on the omote side notare with a ko-maru-kaeri and hakikake at the very tip and on the ura side midare-komi with a ko-maru-kaeri which runs back in a long fashion and connects with the muneyaki Nakago: ubu, shallow kurijiri, katte-sagari yasurime, two mekugi-ana, mumei

Explanation

Together with the Nobukuni (信国) School, the Hasebe (長谷部) School is regarded as the most representative lineage of Yamashiro smiths of the Nanbokuchō period.

Outstanding masters from this school were Kunishige (国重) and Kuninobu (国信) who focused on a hitatsura, an interpretation that emerged at that time,

but also worked like here in a midareba that bases on a notare that is mixed with gunome.

This wakizashi is ubu and mumei and was handed down as work of the Hasebe School. Only the area along the fukura tends to hitatsura, but is still not a full hitatsura,

the composition of the ha however with prominent notare, the jigane showing a tendency towards masame, and the very thin kasane do represent the characteristic features of the Hasebe School.