Kozuka 8

製品番号 Product No.

KOZ: 008.

種類継手 Type fitting

小塚 Kozuka.

銘 MEI

銘：棟銘–安親  MEI placed on the Mune of the Kozuka. 安親 Yasu Chika. 1st + 2nd gen. (Extra info: the signatures of the first two generations are difficult to distinguish)

画像 Image

On a plain Shaku-dô 赤銅 base an old monk/beggar standing under a magnolia branch.

時代 Era

江戸時代中期 Middle Edo period.

日付 Date

 ca.1700-1720.

伝 School

土屋–伝  Tsuchiya-Den  

長さLength.

97.7 mm

幅 Width.

14.3 mm

厚さThickness.

  5.0 mm

重さWeight.

29 gr.

物質 Material

Shibu-ichi 四分一, Shaku-dô 赤銅, engraved with inlaid gold 金 (gold plated) and silver 銀 (zilver plated).

技法 Technique   

This Kozuka was made according to the  Shakudô-migaki  赤銅磨地 technique.

日本美術刀剣保存協会          NBTHK Certificate

n/a

他の 証明書                         Other certificate

n/a

状態 Status

上工  Jōkō, Superior

追加情報                                Additional Information

小塚 Kozuka is good candidate for 保存 Hozon, ore 特別保存刀剣 Tokubetsu Hozon, 審査 Sinsha.           

歴史 History

Yasuchika’s first name was Yagohachi (弥五八) and he was born in Kanbun ten (寛文, 1671) as son of the Shōnai fief (庄内藩) samurai Tsuchiya Chūzaemon (土屋忠左衛門). As he grew up, he became a student of Shōami Chinkyū (正阿弥珍久) whose daughter he married later. In Genroku ten (元禄, 1697), then aged 34, he left for Edo where he learned from Nara Tatsumasa (奈良辰政) and where his talent started to unfold. During the Shōtoku era (正徳, 1711-1716), he was employed by Matsudaira Daigaku no Kami Yorisada (松平大学頭頼貞, 1664-1744) who was the daiymō of the Moriyama fief (守山藩) in Mitsu province, yielding an annual income of 20,000 koku, and the nephew of Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀, 1628-1701), the prominent daimyō of Mito. In Kyōhō 16 (享保, 1731), aged 61, he entered priesthood under the lay name Tō’u (東雨). He left us many great masterworks and was later regarded with Nara Toshinaga (奈良利寿) and Sugiura Jōi (杉浦乗意) ad one of the Nara Sansaku (奈良三作), the “Three Great Nara Masters.”