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Omi Daijo Tadahiro KATANA (近江大掾忠広)

A high-quality and very beautiful Omi Daijo Tadahiro katana in Edo period koshirae by one of the most important Edo smiths. This is the nidai jojo-saku smith who was most responsible turning Hizen into the most successful center of sword forging during the Edo period. Omi Daijo (second generation) Tadahiro had a number of exceptional students, in particular his son Mutsu no kami Tadayoshi, who was saijo o-wazamono rated. This example has a perfectly typical konuka-hada and bright suguha hamon in ko-nie. It is slightly suriage, and signed Hizen (no) kuni ju Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro. It has very nice Edo period handachi koshirae, with mokume style tsuba, a kogai, and beautiful lacquerwork. Mei: Hizen (no) kuni ju Omi Daijo Fujiwara Tadahiro (肥前国住近江大掾藤原忠広) This Tadahiro has an excellent length of 28 inches. From Mark Sesko's "Swordsmiths of Japan": TADAHIRO (忠広), 2nd gen., Keian (慶安, 1648-1652), Hizen – “Hizen no Kuni-jū Fujiwara Tadahiro” (肥前国住藤原忠広), “Ōmi no Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro” (近江大掾藤原忠広), “Hizen no Kuni-jū Ōmi no Daijō Fujiwara Tadahiro” (肥前国住近江大掾藤原忠広), “Hizen no Kuni Tadahiro” (肥前国忠広), “Tadahiro” (忠広), real name Hashimoto Heisakurō (橋本平作郎), he adopted later the hereditary name Shinzaemon (新左衛門), son of the 1st gen. Tadayoshi (忠吉) who had changed his name later to Tadahiro, he signed throughout his entire career with Tadahiro and never with Tadayoshi, he received the honorary title Ōmi no Daijō on the 22nd day of the seventh month Kan´ei 18 (寛永, 1641) and died in the 27th day of the fifth month Genroku six (元禄, 1693) at the age of 80, we know date signatures from the seventh year of Kan´ei (1630) to the early Genroku era (1688~ ), that means he was active for more then 50 years and therefore also very productive, his blades show different shapes like a wide mihaba with an ōkissaki or also a ko-kissaki in combination with a shallow sori, the jigane is a dense and beautifully forged ko-itame with ji-nie which appears as konuka-hada but can also stand-out more noticeable, the hamon is a chū-suguha, notare mixed with gunomeashi, chōji-midare or gunome-midare, the nioiguchi is mostly wide and the ko-nie are very evenly distributed along the nioiguchi, in the case of a chōji the yakigashira are roundish and long ashi appear, at a gunome, often two gunome are combined, the bōshi is sugu with a ko-maru-kaeri but can also be in midare-komi, contrary to the 1st and 3rd gen., his kaeri runs back a little longer, some blades show horimono engraved by Yoshinaga (吉長), the signature is a tachi-mei at long swords and a katana-mei at wakizashi and tantō, katana measuring just under 2 shaku were considered as ō-wakizashi and were therefore signed with a katana-mei, ō-wazamono, jōjō-saku