Wakizashi Jumyo Ietsugu

Name: Wakizashi Jumyo Ietsugu
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Wakizashi Jumyo Ietsugu
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Wakizashi Signed Jumyo Ietsugu - 壽命家次

Mino/Kaga Province, Late Muromachi

Total Weight	0.869 kg
Weight without Saya	0.679 kg
Blade Weight	0.487 kg
Full lengthNaked Blade (Toshin)	64.40 cm
Nagasa	50.00 cm
Nakago Length	14.30 cm
Sori (curvature)	0.70 cm
Kissaki Length	3.20 cm
Moto Haba	2.80 cm
Saki Haba	2.05 cm
Moto Kasane	A = 0.62 cm B = 0.70cm
Saki Kasane	A = 0.45 cm (4cm from the tip) B= 0.49 cm
Curvature	Tori Sori (central curvature)
Type Kissaki	Chu Kissaki (medium length)
Blade Structure	Zukuri: Shinogi Zukuri (diamond cut view) Hiraji: Hira Niku/ Shishi Nashi (slightly curved flanks)
Mune	Iori mune (Triangular)
Hamon	Gunome Choji in Nie Deki with presence of Sunagashi and Kinsuji
Hada	Ko Masame/Itame
Boshi	Boshi in hakikake (drawing of sand scattered by a broom).
Nakago	O'Suriage (shortened), Signed 壽命家次 «Jumyo Ietsugu» on Omote, length 14.4 cm, 3 Mekugi Ana, classic Futsugata shape, straight end Kiri Jiri type (typical of shortened blades). Particularity, different Yasurime, Kesho Yasurime on Ura and Kiri Yasurime on Omote (signed face). Lower part of the silk showing deeper oxidation, mark of a shortening and of the old demarcation between polished and oxidized part, demarcation called Sabigiwa.
Saya	-Saya 144g, 53cm, lacquered pearl green (aventurine and shell powder), with Koiguchi and Kurigata horn, end (Kojiri) rounded. Presence of side slots for Kogatana and Kogai. -Kozuka Copper-coloured, patinated face-up pattern of a golden dragon in the waves also known as Namitatsu. Length 9.35 cm.
Tsuka & Tosogu (Tsuba, Menuki, Fuchi Kashira)	- Tsuka: with Tsumami Maki type black silk braid, pinched braid at each crossing. Kashira in horn finish with Tensho Koshirae exterior braiding, common assembly during the Tensho period, at the end of the Azuchi Momoyama era end 16^th century. Full Same whitened high quality with large grains visible on Omote side. -Kashira: black buffalo corm partially covered by outer braiding, Tensho Koshirae type. - Fuchi: Hikone Soten or Goto schools with Nanako surfacing (small grains) and relief of character dancing near a Japanese pine (Matsu). - Menuki: Very beautiful menuki in shakudo with gilding, with the motif of ears of rice, called «Inaho» 稲穂 - Seppa: 2 x 3.5g, classic copper pair - Habaki: 24g, copper without pattern, «Muji» - Tsuba: Weight 76 g, dimensions 6.95cm x 7.2cm x 0.48cm. Sukashi pattern, 5-leaf Ginkgo 銀杏 pattern, symbol of hope, love and longevity, and providing divine protection. Almost round Maru Gata-type (Naga) shape and rounded Maru Mimi border. Work resembling tsuba by Bushu Masakuni 武州正國 of the Bushu-Ito school.
Study & Team Review	This is a set of beautiful workmanship, the mount is very elegant from the Edo period and the blade dates from late Koto, circa 1550. The tempering line is visually very beautiful with its very aerial Gunome Choji corrugations and beautiful steel crystallization. An ideal investment for a collection. «Jumyo» 壽命 means «Long Life», these blades were in high demand because considered auspicious. The belief is that those who possess Jumyo blades are affected by fortune and longevity. These blades were thus very appreciated offerings by the Daimyo. In wartime, they were also well known for their cutting edge and cutting abilities, often Wazamono. The Jumyo 壽命 School originated from the tradition of Yamato (Nara Prefecture). During the Kamakura period (1185–1333), this blacksmith line from Yamato settled in the province of Mino (prefecture of Gifu). Because of its location and the quality of its blades, the Jumyo school experienced a significant boom during the Muromachi era, the era of the great wars. This blacksmith line continued into the 19^th century. The first Jumyo blacksmith of Mino lived around 1300 in the district of Ono, north of the province of Mino, bordering that of Kaga (today Kanazawa). Kaga province was under the control of the Togashi clan during the Muromachi period, then it was conquered by Shibata Katsuie (general of Oda Nobunaga) during the SengokuJidai. Finally, under Hideyoshi and Tokugawa, it was under the control of the Maeda clan. During the Koto period, the school was represented by 8 generations. It was towards the end of the 16^th century that the line settled in Shimizu in the south of the province of Mino. During the Shinto and Shinshinto period, the Jumyo branch of Mino continued to prosper, until the Showa period, with as last representative Kato Zennosuke who was a pupil of Watanabe Kanenaga and worked for the Japanese arsenals during the Second World War. From the Shinto period, the early Edo period (1600), the Jumyose school also developed in Owari, southwest of Gifu. This line of Owari was founded by Kondo Sukezaemon 近藤助左衛門, born around 1580 in Seki in the province of Mino. During the Keicho period (1596-1614), he settled in Kiyosu Castle, Owari, Nobunaga clan province. He obtained the title of «Tango-no-kami» 丹後守 in 1625. This lineage of Owari continued for 5 generations until the early 19^th century. It is therefore a long lineage of blacksmiths from Mino who have, for the most part, signed their work with only the Jumyo 壽命 kanji, symbol of prosperity and long life. In addition to the study of this blade, there were two lines of blacksmiths Ietsugu, one in the province of Bitchu (tradition of Bizen), and one in the province of Kaga (tradition of Mino). The Bitchu branch began during the Kamakura period. Bitchu Ietsugu was the son of Moritsugu, a pupil of Yasutsugu the founder of the Aoe school, near the Takahashi River in Bitchu. Kaga’s branch originated from Tomoshige 友重 was a pupil of Rai Kunitoshi (Yamato Den), early Muromachi. Tomoshige was from Fujishima in Echizen and settled in Ishikawa in Kaga. Despite the influences of Yamato Den, and his location close to the Mino Den, Tomoshige worked a lot in the Sue-Bizen style. The Ietsugu lineage of Kaga is also called ‘Kaga-Aoe Hashizume’, and the name Ietsugu is in homage to the 1^er Ietsugu of the Aoe 青江 school during the Kamakura period. Regarding this blade, there are no other examples of blades signed ‘Jumyo Ietsugu’, our opinion is that it is a blade of the Ietsugu lineage of Kaga, dating from the late Muromachi, when the Jumyo line was in the dstrict of Ono in the north of the province of Mino. The two lines were then only 50 km apart from each other.