A beautiful original Japanese Samurai Daisho set made by HISAKUNI and SUKESADA 1716-1736

This is a true Daisho set, original fittings to mid Edo period. Both katana and wakizashi were made by different smiths at the exact same period Katana: Mei: Kōzuke no Kami Hisakuni – 63.35 cm HISAKUNI (久国), Kyōhō (享保, 1716-1736), Tosa – “Kōzuke no Kami Hisakuni” (上野守久国), “Tosa-jū Kōzuke no Daijō Fujiwara Hisakuni” (土佐住上野大掾藤原久国), real name Kimura Hei´emon (木村平右衛門), he also bore the first name Heizō (平造), adopted son of the 1st gen. Kunimasu (国益), he went during the Hōei era (宝永, 1704-1711) to Kyōto and studied there under the 2nd gen. Ōmi no Kami Hisamichi (久道), he died in the first year of Kanpō (寛保, 1741), he worked in the style of Hisamichi and hardened a gunome-chōji in nie-deki that is mixed with slanted elements, chū-saku Wakizashi: May: Bizen Kuni Osafune ju Yokoyama Gennoshin Sukesada, Dated 8th month of 1717AD – 48.8cm SUKESADA (祐定), 2nd gen., Jōkyō (貞享, 1684-1688), Bizen – “Bishū Osafune-jū Sukesadsa” (備州長船住祐定), “Bizen no Kuni Osafune-jū Yokoyama Gennoshin Fujiwara Sukesada” (備前 国長船住横山源之進藤原祐定), “Bishū Osafune-jū Yokoyama Gennoshin Sukesada” (備州長船住横山源之進祐定), real name Yokoyama Gennoshin (横山源之進 1st gen of the fifth son) . Genzaemon Sukesada, he died on the seventh day of the tenth month Kyōhō seven (享保, 1722) at the age of 72, gunome-chōji, suguha Sukesada made this in the latest stage of his life at 67 years.