HIROMASA, HOJO

GENDAITO

This is a gorgeous sword, it is in excellent polish and condition with some of the ububa remaining. The hada is Itame with chikei and the Hamon is a chu choji in nio deki with sunagashi and a sprinkling of ara-nie. It is a testament to what could be and was produced by Gendai makers. Sword comes in shirasaya and has Hozon papers from the NBTHK.

Oshigata of this sword is published and can be seen in John Slough’s Oshigata Book of Modern Japanese Swordsmiths: 1868-1945, pg. 34.

Courtesy of Sesko’s, Swordsmiths A-Z

HIROMASA (博正), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Ehime – “Hiromasa” (博正), “Yoshū Hōjō-jū Hiromasa saku” (予州北条住博正作), “Hiromasa kore o kitae” (博正鍛之), real name Toriu Kamematsu (鳥生亀松), student of Takahashi Yoshimune (高橋義宗), he worked as a rikugun-jumei-tōshō and died 1953 at the age of 45, kihin no retsu (Akihide), First Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会, 1941)

$3950 plus S/H and any additional associated fees (pp, wire, etc.)