It is very uncommon to see a WWII era gendaito made in masame and this one appears to be a Yamato Hosho utushi-mono. I did have a Taisho period Kasama Ikkansai Shigetsugu like this once, but I don’t recall any others from that general time period done so well. Dated 1944. He was a Prefectural Living Treasure (Mukei Bunkazai) of Okayama Prefecture (formerly Bizen province).
TOSHIMITSU (俊光), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Okayama – “Bizen no Kuni Osafune-jū Fujiwara Toshimitsu” (備前国長船住藤原俊光), “Zō Bizen no Kuni Akasaki-jū Imaizumi Wataru Toshimitsu saku” (造備前国赤崎住今泉済俊光作), real name Imaizumi Wataru (今泉済), born April 21st 1898 in Saga Prefecture, he initially worked at a spinning mill and forged swords as a hobby, he enjoyed a regular training from 1934 onwards under HiranoMorikuni (平野護国), 1945 he moved to Osafune where he tried to revive the old Bizen-Osafune tradition, during World War II he worked as rikugun-jumei-tōshō, in March 1954 he became an intangible cultural property of Okayama Prefecture, he used the gō Tenmei Juraku
(天命寿楽) and died August 8th 1995, kihin-jōi (Akihide), First Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)
$9,500.00
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