Chiyozuru Iemasa tanto
$2,950 + shipping
$2,950 + shipping
This is something rarely seen. An ubu zaimei Chiyozuru (Echizen Rai) tanto. The blade is by Chiyozuru Iemasa and dates to the early Muromachi. The blade is in a Soshu-den style of omidare hamon in nie-deki with a broad boshi. Signed Iemasa saku and measuring 7 sun 4 bu. The blade has a thick kasane. In shirasaya with sayagaki and silver habaki. Current NBTHK kanteisho.
The Chiyozuru school is a later offshoot of Yamashiro Rai. Rai Kuniyasu, the student of Rai Kunitoshi, moved the school from Kyoto to Echizen province, and the lineage continued in Echizen and Kaga.
IEMASA (家正), Ōei (応永, 1394-1428), Kaga – “Fujiwara Iemasa” (藤原家正), “Kashū Chiyozuru Iemasa” (加州千代鶴家正), Chiyozuru school, a theory says that he was the son of the 1st gen. Iemasa (家政) who was active around Ōei (応永, 1394-1428)
IEMASA (家政), 1st gen., Ōei (応永, 1394-1428), Kaga – “Iemasa” (家政), “Kashū Fujiwara Iemasa” (加州藤原家政), Fujishima school, son of Ietsugu (家次), suguha, ko-midare, wazamono
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