Three black-and-white views of a katana: the two sides of the tang, with long engraved inscriptions, and the point with the temper line.

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Famous works

A katana that is a cultural property of Ishikawa Prefecture and a wakizashi at the Edo-Tokyo Museum; in what was consulted, no work of his is designated by the State.

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  1. Documented works
  2. The katana of 1678
  3. In the lists and the treatises
  4. Works on display

Documented works

WorkDesignationWhere it is
Katana signed 相州小田原八幡山住辻村五郎右衛門尉藤原清平 (Sōshū Odawara Hachimanyama jū Tsujimura Gorōemon-no-jō Fujiwara Kiyohira), of 1678 (Enpō 6), 81.5 cmCultural property of Ishikawa Prefecture (1978)豊国神社 (Toyokuni Jinja) shrine, Kanazawa; kept by the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
Wakizashi signed 賀州住藤原清平 (Kashū jū Fujiwara Kiyohira), of 1660 (Manji 3)No designationEdo-Tokyo Museum

The katana of 1678

He forged it on commission from 安藤対馬守藤原重治 (Andō Tsushima no Kami Fujiwara Shigeharu), who offered it to the 石清水八幡宮 (Iwashimizu Hachimangū) shrine to pray for fortune in war. How it later came to the Toyokuni shrine in Kanazawa is not known. Ishikawa Prefecture designated it a cultural property on 7 March 1978.

In the lists and the treatises

YearList or treatiseRank
1797懐宝剣尺 (Kaihō Kenjaku), by Yamada Asaemon業物 (wazamono), the fourth of four grades

Works on display

In 2006, the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art showed works of his in “Meitō to yari” (“famous swords and spears”), according to the exhibition’s record on Art Commons.