Kōchi and Sakawa

Videos

Two videos: the katana of 1853 explained by the Kōchi Castle museum, and the site of his workshop in Sakawa.

Play: 南海太郎と長船忠光 (Nankaitarō to Osafune Tadamitsu)

南海太郎と長船忠光 (Nankaitarō to Osafune Tadamitsu) · 高知県立高知城歴史博物館 (Kōchi Kenritsu Kōchijō Rekishi Hakubutsukan)

2:10 · 15 April 2020

The Kōchi Castle museum, during a temporary closure, presents two swords from its collection: Nankaitarō Tomotaka’s katana of 1853, with its 83-character signature, its suguha and its ko-itame, and a katana by Osafune Tadamitsu of 1508 (Eishō 5).

Play: 幕末の土佐の刀工 南海太郎朝尊 (Bakumatsu no Tosa no tōkō Nankaitarō Tomotaka)

幕末の土佐の刀工 南海太郎朝尊 (Bakumatsu no Tosa no tōkō Nankaitarō Tomotaka) · junya simasaki

0:37 · 11 December 2023

The site of Tomotaka’s workshop in Kuroiwa, in Sakawa: the stone stele among the undergrowth and the town’s sign that marks it as a cultural property.