A Beautiful Japanese Kamakura JÛYÔ TÔKEN NAKAJIMA RAI KUNINAGA KATANA The 66th Inportent Sword

The swords blade offered here belongs to the founder of Nakajima Rai School, Rai Kuninaga (来国長) who was one of the top students of Rai Kunitoshi (来国俊). Perhaps the best place to start is with some of the main characteristics of the knives of Rai Kuninaga’s teacher, Rai Kunitoshi, and the traditional Rai school in general. The Rai school, along with the Awtaguchi school, is representative of Yamashiro knives and was active from the last mid-Kamakura period to the Nanbokuchô period. Traditionally, Rai Kuniyuki (来国行) is considered the founder of the Rai school. He was followed by his son, Rai Kunitoshi (来国俊) who has many fine examples of his work that survive today. Rai Kunitoshi (来国俊) is considered one of the most important swordsmiths of all time and he trained many fine students, including Rai Kunimitsu (来国光), Rai Kunitsugu (来国次) and Rai Kuninaga (来国長). Written records and extant swords support the fact that Rai Kunitoshi had many good students, and during his life in the capital Kyoto, he was famous. It is believed that Rai Kunitoshi’s top students created works under Rai Kunitoshi’s name (daisaku/daimei), including Kunitsugu (来国次) and his younger brother Kuninaga (来国長). Sword: White sheathed, with fistols (66th inportent Sword) Inscription Mumei (Nakajima Rai) Nakajima Rai However Ōsōjō Mumeiya Jiba Healthy Showa Kotora Year Nakaakiyoshi Dag Kanzan Magazine (Hanaoshi) Nakajima Rai We list the best work and the common work depending on the work of the sword maker. This work is ranked as Nakajima Rai’s best work. Length: 68.3cm Curvature: 1.4cm Eye nail holes: 4 Original Width: 2.95 cm Tip Width: 2.15 cm Low: 0.62cm Sword weight: 655g Era From the end of the Kamakura period to the beginning of the Nanboku-cho period It is a work with a large rubbed and nameless, broad and thick, thick and deeply warped, and a stick gutter carved to give it a good appearance. Heather grain skin mixes well with small plate grain skin and boils the ground to create a beautiful skin. Blade pattern Small foot and leaves come in the small boiling straight blade well. Hats, left and right, but there are parts that return to large circles and parts that return to small circles. The head of Raikoku, who is a disciple of Raikokutoshi, is called Nakajima Rai because he moved to Nakajima in Settsu. In the directory, it is divided into the first generation and the second generation, and the first generation is written as Gentoku, and the second generation as Shohei. There are very few famous works, and there are works that inherit the characteristics of the coming school. This work is untitled, but it is very similar to Raikoku Light’s body layout and blade pattern. It can be said that it is a work with a calm atmosphere with a straight blade and leaves that work well. There are no defects or cracks on the blade and it is a job well done. Tsubaki Openwork is applied to a circular iron forge. Menuki Portraits are heavily carved on a red copper background and colored in gold. Border: Landscape drawings are heavily carved on a red copper background and colored in gold. The 66th Inportent Sword.