Nakajima Ujinori
中嶋氏詮 (Nakajima Ujinori)
Swordsmith of Tosa active in the last years of the Edo period, with work dated 1863.
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Tosa swordsmith of the late Edo period, with work dated 1863. He signed 建依別中島氏詮造之 (Takeyoriwake Nakajima Ujinori kore o tsukuru), Takeyoriwake being the ancient name of Tosa. Tradition holds that he knew Sa Yukihide, who taught him masame forging, that he joined the Tosa Kinnōtō, and that after the ban on wearing swords he left the forge to become a Shinto priest.
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Nakajima Ujinori
Katana by Nakajima Ujinori of Tosa, signed and dated Bunkyū 3 (1863), in an uchigatana koshirae with black lacquered saya; Tokubetsu Hozon paper according to the original seller. Katana by Nakajima Ujinori, a Tosa smith of the late Edo period, dated to the first month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), when, according to the original seller, he was 45 years old. The blade, 76.9 cm in nagasa with 1.52 cm of sori, is wide and very thick in kasane, with an extended chū-kissaki: the shape associated with the imperial loyalist samurai of Tosa at the time. The original seller describes a masame jihada with ji-nie and chikei, and a suguha-based hamon mixed with ko-gunome and ko-notare, with tobiyaki in the monouchi and kinsuji. The long tang, with two mekugi-ana that the seller explains as intentional, bears on the omote the cursive signature 建依別中嶋氏詮造之 (Takeyoriwake Nakajima Ujinori kore o tsukuru) and on the ura the date 文久三癸亥正月日 (Bunkyū san mizunoto-i shōgatsu-jitsu). It comes in an uchigatana koshirae with a black rō-iro lacquered saya and a notably long tsuka and saya, a reinforced iron fuchi, an iron kashira with crab and bamboo grass, and a pierced iron tsuba with waves that the seller attributes to Tosa Myōchin. The seller also declares a gold-foiled single habaki and a shirasaya. NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Tōken paper, according to the original seller.
67.8/100
€9,690
