In museums and shrines

Famous works

His blades in the Tokyo and Kyoto National Museums, the offerings to the shrines and an old naginata he restored.

On this page
  1. Documented works
  2. Three pieces
  3. In the lists and the treatises
  4. Gallery

Documented works

WorkDateWhere it is
Naginata 大和尻懸住則長作 (Yamato Shikkake-jū Norinaga saku), of the Nanbokuchō, 52.2 cm, with the addition 宮本能登守包則継之 (Miyamoto Noto no Kami Kanenori kore o tsugu)Nanbokuchō bladeKyoto National Museum (E甲282)
Tantō blade, 21.4 cm along the edge1868The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2026.137a–e)
Votive tachi 鎮国神器 (Chinkoku shinki), forged after a hundred days of retreat1868 (Meiji 1)Fushimi Inari shrine, Kyoto
66 tachi, 42 spear blades and 3,800 arrowheads for the Ise shrine1886-1889Ise shrine
Two tantō 菅原包則謹作叡覧 (Sugawara Kanenori kinsaku eiran), made for the emperor to view at the Japan Art Association1891 (Meiji 24)Tokyo National Museum (F-307 and F-344)
Tachi 菅原包則謹作之 (Sugawara Kanenori kinsaku kore), with a replica ceremonial mount1897 (Meiji 30)Tokyo National Museum (F-338)
Tachi blade, at 84, and koshigatana blade, donated by him1913 (Taishō 2)Tokyo National Museum (F-16489 and F-16490)
Kantō no tachi (環頭大刀, kantō no tachi), replica of an ancient sword, at 861915 (Taishō 4)Tokyo National Museum (F-36)
Model of a gilt-bronze daitō, with the iron left over from the grand shrineMeijiTokyo National Museum (F-20151)
Tantō 因州住包則 (Inshū-jū Kanenori), attributed to Miyamoto KanenoriNo dateTokyo National Museum (F-20069)
Tantō 宮本菅原包則六十二翁 (Miyamoto Sugawara Kanenori rokujūni-ō), at 621891Saitama Prefectural Museum of History and Folklore

Three pieces

He donated the 1913 blades to the Tokyo National Museum himself: according to the museum, he made the tachi one because he offered to exchange it for the one he had donated the year before. The kantō no tachi of 1915, a replica of an ancient sword with a ring-shaped tang, dates from the year of Taishō’s enthronement. The naginata by Norinaga, burnt in the siege of Osaka, is for the Japanese Wikipedia an example of his work restoring famous blades.

In the lists and the treatises

He was, with Gassan Sadakazu, one of the two swordsmiths named artists of the imperial household, a title that existed from 1890 to 1947. No work of his is recorded as a National Treasure or an Important Cultural Property in the sources consulted.