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Choshu Kiyoshige Katana

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An ubu shinshinto katana,signed Choshu Fujiwara Kiyoshige Saku.   Shinogizukure, iroi mune, chu kissaki.    Hawatare:  Shaku   Sun   bu  (   cm  /  ")  The hamon is suguba  in konie, with a shimari habuchi.  Tight itame hada.  Rated Chu Jo saku in Nihon Toko Jiten Shinto Hen, and valued at 1,500,000 yen in the Toko Taikan.  In polish and shirasaya, copper habaki.  Never submitted to shinsa.

There are illustrations of the same sword in Nihon Toko Jiten Shinto Hen and Toko Taikan with differing dates.  The Nihonto Meikan confirms the date of Genji (1865) as listed in the Toko Taikan.   $4,000

Choshu Fujiwara Kiyoshige Saku

                                                                          Nihon Toko Jiten - Shinto Hen                                                        Toko Taikan

• Nihon Toko Jiten - Shinto Hen

  • Translation: His works feature either a straight temper line (suguha) or                                                                                                                                                irregular, wavy temper line (gunome-midare) with a tight, well-defined                                                                                                                                                    vaporous line (nioi-shimari). He is particularly famous for his engravings

• Toko Taikan
  • "Made by Fujiwara Kiyoshige, resident of Susa, Choshu." Features tight                                                                                                                                                         tlines small-plank grain (ko-itame tsumi) and many straight  tlines (suguha)                                                                                                                                             with small boiling crystals (ko-nie deki).  (The same signature continues                                                                                                                                               across the Kanbun, Genroku, Horeki, and An'ei eras.)