Kantei

In museums and lists

Famous works

No work of the lineage is recorded as designated; the Tokyo National Museum holds a katana of the first with its mounting.

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  1. Documented works
  2. In the museums
  3. In the lists
  4. Gallery

Documented works

WorkDesignationWhere it is
Katana signed 近江守源久道 (Ōmi no Kami Minamoto Hisamichi), with a chrysanthemum on a branch, which the museum gives to the first Hisamichi; with its mountingNo designationTokyo National Museum (F-19980)

In the museums

The record of the Tokyo National Museum gives neither the measurements of the blade nor a photograph of it: it shows only the mounting and its tsuba. From January to March 2025 the Kyoto National Museum devoted an exhibition to the shintō smiths of Yamashiro of the Mishina and Horikawa schools. It is not recorded that it included work by Hisamichi.

In the lists

The Kaihō Kenjaku (懐宝剣尺) of 1797, the Yamada cutting list, places the first Hisamichi among the 50 yoki-wazamono (良業物, yoki-wazamono), the third of its four grades; the Japanese Wikipedia calls him “shintō jō-saku and yoki-wazamono”. In Tomita Kiyama’s ranking of shintō smiths (1933, published in 1935), modelled on sumō, he appears among the special ranks, as kanjinmoto, together with Iga no Kami Kinmichi.

He is not recorded in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō (享保名物帳, Kyōhō meibutsuchō), nor is any work of the lineage recorded as designated a National Treasure or an Important Cultural Property.