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Famous works

An attributed tachi that is an Important Cultural Property, a wakizashi of Okayama Prefecture, blades in Kyoto, Tokyo, New York and Bern, and their place in the Yamada cutting list.

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  1. Documented works
  2. What is on record and what is not
  3. In the lists
  4. Gallery

Documented works

WorkDesignationWhere it is
Tachi signed 康 (Yasu) with the rest illegible, attributed to YasumitsuImportant Cultural PropertySaga, in the list next to the Yoka shrine; owner to be confirmed
Wakizashi 備州長船康光 (Bishū Osafune Yasumitsu)Cultural property of Okayama Prefecture (1963)Tamano (Okayama); owner not on record
Wakizashi 備州長船康光 (Bishū Osafune Yasumitsu), 1409 (Ōei 16)No designationKyoto National Museum (E甲452)
Tachi 康光 (Yasumitsu), with the silver inscription of Horibe TakeyasuNo designationTokyo National Museum (F-17057)
Tachi 康光 (Yasumitsu), of 77.8 cmNo designationTokyo National Museum (F-20011)
Wakizashi of the 15th century, with an 18th-century mounting, in a daishō with a katana by SukemitsuNo designationMetropolitan Museum, New York
WakizashiNo designationBern Historical Museum

What is on record and what is not

The Important Cultural Property is a tachi whose signature allows only 康 (Yasu) to be read; it appears in the Kyūshū list of the Japanese Wikipedia as attributed to Yasumitsu. No National Treasure of theirs is on record, nor a work in the imperial collection, nor a record of its own for the two designated works.

In the lists

In the Yamada cutting list (懐宝剣尺, Kaihō Kenjaku, 1797), Osafune Yasumitsu is in the second grade out of four, that of ō-wazamono (大業物), together with Morimitsu; the Japanese Sword Index repeats the grade. The ō-wazamono cut through the torso seven to eight times out of ten. In the 誌上鑑定 (Shijō Kantei), the kantei competition of the NBTHK journal, a single blade by Yasumitsu came up between 1998 and 2024. No work of theirs is on record in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō (享保名物帳, Kyōhō meibutsuchō).