Hamabe Toshizane
浜部寿実 (Hamabe Toshizane)
Lineage: the signature does not state the generation
Swordsmith of the Hamabe school in the service of the lords of Tottori, in Inaba, active from the late 18th to the mid-19th century.
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This entry gathers the blades signed Toshizane from the Hamabe school of Inaba, whose known smith is Hamabe Toshizane, art name Minryūshi (眠龍子). Born in 1777 as Gihachirō, he was the son and pupil of Hamabe Toshinori (浜部寿格), founder of the school, and like his father he worked for the Ikeda lords of Tottori. His earliest works, from around 1795, are signed Toshikuni (寿国); from 1797 he signed Toshizane, and around 1801 he added his art name, sometimes preceded by his status as a retainer of the Inaba domain. School tradition has it that as a young man he went with his father to Edo to examine swords in the shogunate's collection. He worked in the Bizen tradition, with nioi-based chōji midare hamon including kikka-chōji (菊花丁子); later he turned to more elaborate patterns such as kikusui-ba (菊水刃) and sudare-ba (簾刃), close to those of the 17th-century Osaka smiths. He trained several smiths, among them Toshitaka (寿隆) and Toshiyuki (寿幸). He died in 1846, aged seventy.
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Hamabe Minryūshi Toshizane
Shinshintō katana by Hamabe Minryūshi Toshizane, retainer smith of the Inaba (Tottori) clan, signed and dated in the 8th month of Bunka 14 (1817), with koshirae and shirasaya. Shinshintō-period katana by Hamabe Minryūshi Toshizane, a smith of the Hamabe school in the service of the Inaba (Tottori) clan. The blade has a nagasa of 71.2 cm and a sori of 1.2 cm. The photographs show an irregular gunome midare hamon running the full length of the blade and a moderately proportioned kissaki. The nakago, recorded as ubu in the piece data, shows a single mekugi-ana in the photographs, the long signature on the omote (因藩臣濱部眠龍子壽実, probable reading: Inpan-shin Hamabe Minryūshi Toshizane) and the date on the ura, the 8th month of Bunka 14 (1817); both faces also carry later inscriptions in red lacquer. The sword comes with a shirasaya and a complete koshirae known only from the photographs: black lacquered saya with a teal sageo, tsuka wrapped in black ito with gilt shishi menuki, black fuchi and kashira, a round iron tsuba and a silver habaki with diagonal file marks. The mounting is neither described nor dated. The piece is recorded with an NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper, which does not appear in the photographs.
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€12,630
