KANEHIDE, SEKI

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL PROPERTY

2 MILLION YEN SMITH

SUGATA: SZ

MEI: SEKI KANEHIDE SAKU KORE

DATE: SHOWA JU ROKU NEN JU ICHI GATSU BI (NOVEMBER 1943)

NAGASA: 26″

OVERALL: 34.375″

MIHABA: 1.25″

KASANE: 0.25″

SORI: 0.5”

NAKAGO: UBU

MEKUGI ANA: ONE

YASURIME: TAKANOHA

MUNE: IORI

HADA: ITAME

HAMON: MIDARE WITH ASHI

BOSHI: O-MARU

HORIMONO OMOTE: NONE

HORIMONO URA: NONE

HABAKI:  2 PC. SILVER

SHIRASAYA

Beautiful, Big, Beefy Gendaito by the Intangible Cultural Property smith Seki Kanehide. See excerpt below from Sesko’s for more details.

Kanehide is rated at 2 million Yen in the Toko Taikan and made high to superior grade gendaito.

While this particular sword is not published in Slough’s, Slough dedicated two pages to this smith which can be seen on pages 40-41.

Courtesy of Sesko’s, Swordsmiths A-Z:

KANEHIDE (兼秀), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Nōshū-jū Kanehide” (濃州住兼秀), “Nōshū-jū Kanehide kinsaku” (濃州住兼秀謹作), “Nōshū Seki-jū Kanehide saku” (濃州関住兼秀作), “Nōshū Seki-jū Kanehide kinsaku” (濃州関住兼秀謹作), real name Tanaka Isao (田中), he was born August 24th 1913 in Ōkura (大桑) in Nagano Prefecture, in 1928 he went to Kōchi Prefecture and studied there under Kawashima Masahide (川島正秀), in 1937 he moved to Seki and entered another apprenticeship under Watanabe Kanenaga (渡辺兼永) whereupon he became the head of the coaching section of Kanenaga´s training center Watanabe Kanenaga Nihontō Tanren Juku (渡辺兼永日本刀 鍛錬塾), he retired from this post in 1940 and founded in February 1941 the company Seki Tōken Corp. (関刀剣株式会社), during World War II he worked as a rikugun-jumei-tōshō but after the war he did not continue to forge swords until spring 1954. He received the title of intangible cultural property of Gifu prefecture and died in 1989 at the age of 75.

References:

Hawley’s pg. 165 (KAN 850)

Toko Taikan TK-122

Gendaito Meikan pg. 81

Sesko’s pg. 204

This sword comes with a 48-hr. inspection period.

Please refer to the Policy Page for complete details.

$6500 plus S/H and any additional associated fees (pp, wire, etc.)