[ Signature ] omote : 於東武大城下藤原信近作之　ura : 慶應元年八月吉日

[ Size ] Blade length 73.2cm (2 shaku 4 sun 1.5 rin), curvature 1.1cm (3 bu 6 rin), moto-haba base width 3.19cm, moto-kasane 0.78cm, saki-haba tip width 2.23cm, saki-kasane tip thickness 0.61cm, mekugi-ana hole 1 piece, blade weight 967g, total shira-saya length 103cm

[ Province ] Musashi 武蔵

[ Feature ]
Form : Shinogi-zukuri. Iori-mune. Mihaba is wide. High shinogi attached. There are few differences between moto-haba and saki-haba. Shallow sori attached. O-kissaki which has fewer attached curvature.
Nakago : Ubu. Uasurime are o-suji-kai and kesho. Saki is kuri-jiri. One hole.
Jigane : Itame-hada. Mokume mixed. More or less, grained pattern comes to be surface. Very fine jinie attached. Fine chikei appeared.
Hamon : Gunome midare, squeared, cho-ji, sharp and round gunome blade patterns mixed. The distinction between hamon and ji is rather clear. Ashi appeared. Ko-nie attached. Tobi-yaki
Boushi : It has midare-komi pattern. It has tsuki-age form. Saki turns sharp.

[ Highlight ] Nobuchika became a student of Kurihara Nobuhide in 1864 at the age of 16, and in 1870 he became the son-in-law of Kurihara Nobuhide's second daughter, Kin, and took over the Kurihara family, living in Hongo Honmachi, Tokyo. In 1877, on the occasion of the birth of Prince Kahito (the future Emperor Taisho), he presented him with a sword. He later changed his signature to ‘Nobuchika’ and is known to have made a name for himself as a cutlery swordsmith making small swords and carving knives after the Sword Law was abolished. In his book ‘On Beauty’, the sculptor Kotaro Takamura praised Nobuchika's skill in making blades from tama-hagane (tama-hagane) steel, which was cultivated through his experience as a swordsmith, as well as the dignity of the form and sharpness of the blade. This piece is one of the Nobuchika signatures left over from the short period of created swords at the end of the Edo period, and shows the style of the master well. The sword has a sound appearance with a raw blade, and the rasp marks on the stem and the signature are well preserved and clear.

[ Conditions ] Slightly cloudy with old polishing.

[ Attachments ] Habaki(suaka-ji, gold foiled, single), shirasaya, bag of shirasaya and NBTHK tokubetsu hozon paper 特別保存刀剣鑑定書(issued on 3rd Dec. Reiwa 3(2021))

[ Item number ] A011124 [ Price ] JPY 1,380,000- (shipping and insurance fee are not included in the price)

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