Kawachi Daijō Masahiro
河内大掾正広 (Kawachi Daijō Masahiro)
First generation (shodai)
The first Masahiro of Hizen (1607-1665, according to the Metropolitan Museum), of the family of the first Tadayoshi; Kawachi Daijō from 1628, according to the Tokyo National Museum.
Profile
Kawachi Daijō Masahiro (河内大掾正広), the first generation of the Hizen Masahiro, worked in Saga; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York gives his dates as 1607 to 1665, and the Tokyo National Museum dates his title of Kawachi Daijō to 1628. Japanese Wikipedia calls him grandson and disciple of the first Tadayoshi; according to the NBTHK, he was the son of Yoshinobu, Tadayoshi’s adopted son, and the elder brother of Dewa no Kami Yukihiro. According to Japanese Wikipedia, after Tadayoshi died in 1632 he was among the smiths who guided the young Ōmi Daijō Tadahiro. His temper is a wide, tall midare in coarse nie, with kinsuji and sunagashi. The Yamada cutting list ranks him among the wazamono, and tradition credits him with a sword owned by the Tosa samurai Takechi Hanpeita.
Monograph
Kawachi Daijō Masahiro (河内大掾正広) Who the first Masahiro was, what is documented and what is missing, with the level of evidence of each fact. Read the monographNotable works
- Katana signed in Saga without the title, earlier than 1628 according to the museum, in the Tokyo National Museum.
- Katana blade dated 1653, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Rankings
- Wazamono (good) (Kaihō Kenjaku, 1797)
- Maegashira (East) in Tomita Kiyama’s ranking of shintō smiths (1935)
Swords available
Rank 91
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