Katana : Cho-unsai Emura Saku
2017/01/28
Katana in Koshirae (NBTHK Kicho Paper)
Signature : Cho-unsai Emura Saku
The blade was polished.
Blade length : 66.8 cm or 26.29 inches.
Sori : 1.5 cm or 0.59 inches.
Mekugi : 1
Width at the hamachi : 0.8 cm or 1.23 inches.
Width at the Kissaki : 1.86 cm or 0.73 inches.
Kasane : 0.73 cm or 0.29 inches.
Era : Showa Period War-time
Shape : It is wide and thick regular katana with some original ububa.
Jitetsu : Koitame hada with mixture of masame. Jinie is well attached and it is beautiful jigane.
Hamon : Nie ground with with equal lengths gunome midare with long ashi that reaches the tip of the ha.
The habuchi is soft and boshi is notare style.
Special feature : Cho-unsai Emura was the chief manager of Okayama prizon.
He has moved from the prizon in Shikoku(smallest main island of Japan.) to Okayama prizon.
He was a very caring person and has collected the prisoners who deserve sympathy to make swords.
He was popular among the prisoners and the swords were made in serious manner.
In the neighborhood, there was a place for swords to be polished as well.
At the mean time, Nagamitsu, the head guard at the time, also made sword but Emura made better swords and done better polishing.
Emura pieces were far more high quality and the well polished swords were far more interesting than Yasukuni swords.
It is most likely that the Emura sword will be valued high hereafter.
Most showa swords has low grade polish called "Pafu-ken (a polish method by using soft cloth to show the shine of the sword.) " there fore it will be compared poorly by Yasukuni sword or other swords.
It is therefore interesting to see how Emura would be evaluated in the near future. This sword is well made Emura piece.
Koshirae :
Tsuba : Round iron tsuba with design of Aoi leaf engraved in open work. Echizen Kinai.
Fuchikashira : Iron plate with chrysanthemum flower engraved.
Saya : Black roiro saya
Menuki : Shakudo plate with dragon design engraved.
NBTHK Kicho Paper
Aoi Art estimation paper : whole Oshigata.
Price : 300,000 JPY
