Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu
天龍子橘久一 (Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu)
Lineage: the signature does not state the generation
Swordsmith of the late Edo and early Meiji years, active in Ise and Musashi between 1861 and 1870.
Profile
Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu (天龍子橘久一) signed blades dated between 1861 and 1870. His signatures place him first in Ise and, in the last years of Keiō, in Musashi; in 1870 he dated a blade forged at Hikone in Ōmi. By tradition he came from Echigo and trained in the school of Ozaki Suketaka. Beyond what his signatures tell, little more is known of him.
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Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu
Long 76.9 cm blade signed and dated to the summer of Keiō 1 (1865), with an untouched two-hole tang, a recent high-grade polish and a koshirae in black ishime lacquer. Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu was a pupil of Ozaki Suketaka. Born in Katakai in Echigo, he also lived in Musashi and in Yamada of Ise, and forged between the Keiō and Meiji eras, working as well in Hikone and Sakai. The untouched tang carries the signature 天龍子橘久一作 (Tenryūshi Tachibana Hisakazu saku) and the date of the summer of Keiō 1 (1865); it is long and was made from the outset with two mekugi-ana. The blade measures 76.9 cm nagasa with 1.15 cm sori, motohaba 31.9 mm and motokasane 9.0 mm, with sakihaba of 27.8 mm at the monouchi and 24.8 mm at the yokote; it weighs 1,276 g bare and 1,652 g mounted. It shows a clear difference between moto and saki and an extended point, a ko-itame hada with mokume standing out in places, and a hamon based on suguha with ko-notare and gunome mixed in, ashi reaching inwards and abundant fine activity along the edge; the bōshi is straight with a round turnback. It has just received a museum-grade polish. The mounting is an uchigatana koshirae with a black ishime saya and a suaka habaki, tight, with no play in the hilt and no rattle from the tsuba, and comes with shirasaya and tsunagi.
72.9/100
€12,560
