Famous works

The 大倶利伽羅広光 (Ōkurikara Hiromitsu)

• Important Art Object (重要美術品, jūyō bijutsuhin) since 20 December 1934, in the name of Count Date Okimune; it is in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō (享保名物帳). Today it belongs to a private collection and is not exhibited.
• It bears a carved Kurikara dragon on the omote side and koshi-hi and soe-hi on the ura. The steel is ō-itame and the hamon a ko-midare with a suguha feel and a very frayed edge.
• It was a tachi of about 90 cm, greatly shortened (ō-suriage) to 67.6 cm towards the end of the Sengoku, according to the analysis of the rust.
• The shogun Hidetada gave it to Date Tadamune in 1621, on completion of the works on the wall of Edo castle.

The 火車切広光 (Kashagiri Hiromitsu)

• Wakizashi in hira-zukuri of 38.4 cm, signed 相模国住人広光 康安二年十月日 (Sagami no kuni jūnin Hiromitsu Kōan ninen jūgatsu hi), of 1362, with a black-lacquered short-sword mounting of the late Muromachi.
• Important Art Object in 1933, with its mounting, in the name of Baron Uesugi Noriaki. It was one of the thirty-five favourite blades of Uesugi Kagekatsu. Ōtani Isao donated it in 2015 to the Sano Art Museum, in Mishima (Shizuoka).
• Carvings of bonji, sankozuka-ken and gomabashi; itame with mokume, coarse ji-nie with chikei, tobiyaki and muneyaki; hamon of chōji and gunome with ashi, strong nie, kinsuji and sunagashi.
• It is not recorded where its name, “the one that cut a kasha”, comes from. Sesko distinguishes it from the Kashakiri Tomoshige and suggests a possible link with Tada Mitsuyori, a vassal of the Takeda.

With NBTHK papers

The Japanese Wikipedia says that only one tachi signed by Hiromitsu is known; it may be this one, but no source states it.