Yamato no Kami Yasusada
大和守安定 (Yamato no Kami Yasusada)
Edo swordsmith in Musashi, active in the third quarter of the 17th century; generally held to have come from the Ishidō school of Kii.
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Yamato no Kami Yasusada worked in Edo, in Musashi province. His lay name was Tomita Sōbei, and a blade of 1670 on which he gives his age places his birth around 1618. He was once thought to descend from the Shimosaka smiths of Echizen; the prevailing view today is that he came out of the Ishidō school of Kii. He reached Edo around 1648, and Izumi no Kami Kaneshige is the teacher most often proposed. He held the title Yamato Daijō before being raised to Yamato no Kami. He signed Yamato no Kami Yasusada, sometimes preceded by Musashi no Kuni jū or by Tomita. His blades have the Kanbun shape, with shallow curvature and a narrowed point, a fine ko-itame and a nie-based hamon of notare with gunome or of gunome midare, close to the manner of Kotetsu. Many carry cutting-test inscriptions on the tang. His last dated work is from 1673. Tradition links his swords to swordsmen of the late shogunate such as Okita Sōji and Iba Hachirō.
Rankings
- Yoki-wazamono (very good) (Kaihō Kenjaku, 1797)
Swords available
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Yamato no Kami Yasusada
Shintō katana signed by Yamato no Kami Yasusada, with a suriage nakago, an uchigatana-koshirae with black saya and mon, and an NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Tōken certificate. Katana signed by Yamato no Kami Yasusada, an Edo smith of the shintō period rated shintō jō-saku and yoki wazamono for the sharpness of his blades. According to the original seller, the first Yasusada came from Echizen, is regarded as a pupil of the first Yasutsugu, and recent research links him to the Ishidō school of Kishū; he settled in Kanda, Edo. His blades are known for the cutting-test inscriptions of the Yamano family and for their great popularity at the end of the Edo period. The blade has a nagasa of 71.1 cm with a sori of 0.9 cm, a motohaba of 2.92 cm and a sakihaba of 1.98 cm; the photographs show a wavy notare-gunome hamon. The nakago is shortened (suriage), retains the signature "Yamato no Kami Yasusada" and has three mekugi-ana. It comes with an uchigatana-koshirae with a black ishime-lacquered saya scattered with maru-ni-mitsu-kashiwa mon, a round iron tsuba and a tsuka with black ito, together with a shirasaya. NBTHK Tokubetsu Hozon Tōken certificate issued in 2013, with a Tokyo registration of 1961.
38.8/100
€15,890
