Takada Sadamori
定盛 (Takada Sadamori)
Swordsmith of the Taira Takada school in Bungo province, active in the 16th century, towards the end of the Muromachi period.
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Sadamori belonged to the Taira Takada school, the group of smiths based at Takada in Bungo province who worked under the patronage of the Ōtomo clan during the Muromachi period. His activity falls in the 16th century, in the closing phase of the kotō era; tradition divides the name among several generations. Like the other smiths of the school at that time he used the surname Taira, signing 平定盛 (Taira Sadamori), or 定盛作 (Sadamori saku). Markus Sesko names him as an example of the school for grooves ending in an angular termination (kaku-dome). Taira Takada blades were made for use: a thick cross-section, pronounced curvature and hard steel in an itame grain tending to masame, sometimes with whitish reflections, with a hamon ranging from suguha to gunome midare.
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Sadamori
Katana signed 定盛 (Sadamori), a smith of the Taira Takada school, active in Bungo province on Kyūshū. The original seller places it in the late Muromachi period, in the Tenbun era (1532–1555). The blade, in shinogi-zukuri construction, has a nagasa of 68.2 cm and a sori of 2.1 cm. The photographs show a very lively midare hamon with abundant chōji formations, which the seller describes as jūka-chōji midare over an itame jihada with midare-utsuri. The tang, declared ubu by the seller, appears in the overall view with a single mekugi-ana and the signature on the omote. It comes with a complete koshirae: tsuka wrapped in garnet ito over same, shishi menuki, iron fuchi-kashira with gold karakusa, a four-lobed openwork iron tsuba and a black lacquered saya with a blue-green sageo. A shirasaya with its tsunagi is also included. The NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon paper (no. 1023860, December 2024), visible in the photographs, certifies the blade as a signed work by Sadamori of the 平高田 (Taira Takada) branch.
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€17,680
