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Lot 260
A BIZEN NAGINATA NAOSHI
SIGNED ORIKAESHI-MEI BISHU OSAFUNE (NO) JU YOSHIKAGE NANBOKUCHO PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)
Closed7 November 2012
Price Realised
GBP 17,500
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Specialist note
Accompanied by a certificate of registration as a Juyo Token [Important sword] no. 5002 issued by the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai [Society for the Preservation of the Japan Art Sword] on 1st July 1975
The first generation Yoshikage is said to have been a pupil of Chikakage, and the second generation pupil of Kanemitsu. The style of their signatures has been linked also with the Omiya group of Bizen smiths. A similar naginata naoshi by Yoshikane is discussed by Homma in Kanto no Hibi Sho1. The elegant gentle curvature of the naginata lent itself ideally to the conversion to a sword in a later age when such early pieces were highly venerated.
1. Junji Homma, Kanto no Hibi Sho [Memorandums on Appraised Swords] (article), Token Bijutsu, (N.B.T.H.K), vol.3, p.303
The first generation Yoshikage is said to have been a pupil of Chikakage, and the second generation pupil of Kanemitsu. The style of their signatures has been linked also with the Omiya group of Bizen smiths. A similar naginata naoshi by Yoshikane is discussed by Homma in Kanto no Hibi Sho1. The elegant gentle curvature of the naginata lent itself ideally to the conversion to a sword in a later age when such early pieces were highly venerated.
1. Junji Homma, Kanto no Hibi Sho [Memorandums on Appraised Swords] (article), Token Bijutsu, (N.B.T.H.K), vol.3, p.303