Hiromasa Gendaito (fss-814)

Item description:

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)

This is a very nice example of a sword made by a Rikugun Jumei Tosho swordsmith. A very nice choji/midare hamon with itame and some masame. The blade is mounted in shirasaya. A copper habaki and NBTHK papers attesting to the validity and quality of this blade.

Mei: Yoshū Hōjō-jū Hiromasa saku (Made by Hiromasa, resident of Hōjō in [former] Iyo province)
Date: Shōwa jūhachinen nigatsu hi (on a day in Februaru of 1943)
Nagasa: 25-3/8″ inches
Sori: 15.0 mm
Width at the ha-machi: 30.0 mm
Width at the yokote: 20.2 mm
Thickness at the mune-machi: 6.2 mm
Construction: Shinogi zukuri
Mune: Iori
Nakago: Ubu
Kitae: Itame/mokume
Hamon: Midare Gunome
Boshi: Maru
Condition: Good polish

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KANTEI-SHO (鑑定書) – APPRAISAL

No 346676

katana, mei :
Yoshū Hōjō-jū Hiromasa saku ‒ Shōwa jūhachinen nigatsu hi (豫州北条住博正作・昭和十八年二月日) ‒ “Made by Hiromasa, resident of Hōjō in [former] Iyo province, on a day in Februaru of 1943

nagasa ~ 64.5 cm

According to the result of the shinsa committee of our society, we judge this work as authentic and rank it as Hozon Tōken.

June 2, 1997
[Foundation] Nihon Bijutsu Tōken Hozon Kyōkai, NBTHK (日本美術刀劍保存協會)