Very beautiful Japanese Tanto Created by Toto Sumisakai Ikkansai Shigemasa Carving (Sword incorporated into the Shinshin Sword Taikan)
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Tantou Created by Toto Sumisakai Ikkansai Shigemasa Carving (Sword incorporated into the Shinshin Sword Taikan)
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary Oimura Hatsuyo Tantou Sakai Ikkansai Shigemasa Mukansa Posted on Shinshinto Taikan)
Specially preserved sword (Mukansa swordsmith)
With the NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper.
period Shiwa period 1966 Shigemasa Sakai Itsusai, whose real name is Hiroshi Sakai,
was born in 1905 as the third son of Yasujiro Sakai (younger brother of Masatoshi Miyaguchi) in Otowa-cho, Shizuoka City.
He attended the school of Shigemasa Itsusai Kasama and has been working for about 15 years.
After a long period of training in swordsmithing and wood carving, he received the “Shige” pace from his master,
and his given name was Shigemasa.
He later changed his name to Shigemasa.
He was recognized as an Army Swordsmith and a Navy Swordsmith.
Shigemasa made also tanto for Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto Marshal Admiral,
of the Imperial Japanese Navy the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
20th century, signed Ikkansai Shigemasa kin hori do saku and inscribed Yamamoto Isoroku
After the war he became a Japanese art master.
This work, which has been certified as uninspected by the Sword Preservation Association,
is a sword featured in the Shinshinto Taikansho and was created to celebrate the 60th birthday of Yoshiaki Iimura’s wife, Hatsuyo Iimura.
Blade length 26 cm
Width of the hamachi 2.65 cm
Motoshige Kasane 6mm
