Inaba Kanesaki
因幡兼先 (Inaba Kanesaki)
Lineage: the signature does not state the generation
Line of smiths of Mino origin who served the Ikeda at Tottori, in Inaba, from 1632 to the end of the Edo period.
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Inaba Kanesaki is the name given to the line of smiths who signed Kanesaki at Tottori, seat of the Ikeda domain in Inaba, throughout the Edo period. The family, surnamed Hioki (日置), descended from the Seki smiths of Mino and had moved to Okayama in Bizen towards the end of the Muromachi period. In 1632, when Ikeda Mitsunaka was transferred from Okayama to Tottori, the Kanesaki followed him and settled in the smiths' quarter, Kajimachi (鍛冶町), in the service of the domain. Family tradition counts eight generations bearing the name, down to the first years of Meiji. Their work follows the Mino manner, with gunome hamon and the sanbonsugi typical of Seki; some generations also show features borrowed from Bizen. Common signatures are Inshū-jū Kanesaki, Inshū Tottori-jū Kanesaki and Inaba no Kuni-jū Fujiwara Kanesaki. Local tradition counts Hamabe Toshinori, another Tottori smith, among their pupils. The Watanabe Museum of Art in Tottori included them among the domain smiths in its exhibition of Inaba and Hōki swords.
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Inaba no Kuni-jū Fujiwara Kanesaki
A blade published in the Shōwa Tōken Meibutsuchō, with Tokubetsu Hozon papers, an ubu tang of a single mekugi-ana, a complete crested koshirae and a shirasaya bearing sayagaki. Signed “Inaba no Kuni-jū Fujiwara Kanesaki”. The Kanesaki line came from Mino, and this generation worked for the Ikeda domain of Tottori, in Inaba province, around the Genroku era (c. 1701); the smith is ranked as wazamono. The blade measures 69.8 cm of nagasa with 1.7 cm of sori, 3.13 cm of motohaba and 0.7 cm of motokasane. The hada is a clear ko-itame and the hamon a suguha-chō with abundant ko-ashi and yō. The photographs show an ubu tang with a single mekugi-ana lined with brass sekigane, an angular nakago-jiri and a long, crisp signature. Besides the NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper, the piece is published in the Shōwa Tōken Meibutsuchō and comes with a second certificate, dated 1979, that ranks it as wazamono. The koshirae brings together shakudō nanako fuchi-kashira with a family crest, a pierced iron tsuba with the five-and-three paulownia, menuki in the form of horse tack, a shakudō nanako kozuka bearing the same crest, and a kawari-nuri saya. The shirasaya carries sayagaki.
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€11,530
