A signed tantō and the Inaba Shizu

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A signed tantō, an Important Cultural Property, an attributed dagger with a history of great lords and his place in the cutting lists.

On this page
  1. The tantō signed Kaneuji
  2. Inaba Shizu (稲葉志津)
  3. An attributed tachi
  4. In the old lists

The tantō signed Kaneuji

Tantō signed 兼氏 (Kaneuji), an Important Cultural Property (重要文化財, jūyō bunkazai) since 29 August 1950, in the NBTHK’s Japanese Sword Museum, in Sumida (Tokyo). The official record probably gives it to the first Kaneuji and calls it an extremely rare tantō.

Inaba Shizu (稲葉志津)

An attributed dagger, without an original signature: it bears 志津 (Shizu) in red lacquer and the kaō of Hon'ami Kōtoku. According to Japanese Wikipedia, it passed through Inaba Michitō, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Asano Yukinaga and Kuroda Nagamasa, is today in a private collection in Aichi Prefecture and is an Important Cultural Property. Its record has not been located in the official database of cultural properties.

An attributed tachi

The photo on the home page is that of a tachi attributed to Shizu Kaneuji, of the 14th century, from a private collection, on display at the Tokyo National Museum according to the author of the photo.

In the old lists

He appears in the third grade of the list of wazamono, that of the 良業物 (yoki-wazamono), which derives from the 懐宝剣尺 (Kaihō Kenjaku), of 1797, and from its revision in the 古今鍛冶備考 (Kokon Kaji Bikō), of 1830, according to English Wikipedia. And in the list of the ten pupils of Masamune, from the end of the Edo period.