KANESADA:
Technical SUGATA - KATANA. Not long. Thin MUNE with high SHINOGI
ridge.
HADA - Well made KO-MOKU ITA mix or KO-ITA MASA mix.
Generally, better forging than most MINO. Well-
bound carbon brought a clearer blue. JI-NIE.
HAMON - O-CHOJI GUNOME, O-GUNOME MIDARE,O-NOTARE MIDARE,
MIDARE, GUNOME-MIDARE, some SUGU, HAKO and
YA-no-NE found in NIE and NIOI. NIE-FUSHI.
BOSHI - MIDARE with KO-MARU or JIZO. Turnback is short
or sometimes with MIDARE.
NAKAGO - Well-shaped MINO NAKAGO, sometimes with TAKANOHA.
KANESADA(1) BUN-MEI 1469
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KANESADA(2) EI-SHO 1504 KANETSUNE TAI-EI 1521 KANESADA (TEI)
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KANESADA(3) TEN-MON 1532 UJISADA(1) TEI-EI 1521
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KANESADA KO-JI 1555 KANEMAKI GEN-KI 1570 to KAGA
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KANESADA
KANESADA(1) BUN-MEI 1469 There has been many stories about the origin of the KANESADA Line. One: they fall from YAMATO KUNIFUSA through ISE. KOGAWAUEMON. First generation AIZU. MINO. Work seen KOJI 1555. Said to have worked in RIKUOKA. Several sources propose imaginative stories: One opinion has him the son if the 3rd KANESADA, another is he is the son of SANAMI KANENAGA. Another says KANESADA, the son of NARA SHICHIRO KYUA, the HACHIYA Founder (SADA form:"TEI"), the traveler who brought DARUMA School to MINO, might be the father. Regardless, work is noted from KO-SHO 1455 with no signatures of the "NO-SADA" character form. See KANESADA(2) below. KANESADA(1) is late SHIZU. AKASAKA JU. Father of "NO-SADA" KANESADA. ITAME HADA has standing SHIRAKE-UTSURI. SUGUHA and evenly set KO-GUNOME and GUNOME patterns. KANESADA OSHU JU KANESADA NOSHU SHIMIZU JU KANESADA
KANESADA(2) EI-SHO 1504 "NO-SADA" (t: KANESADA(1): JIROZAEMON and KICHIUEMON. Originally from KAI, then moved to SEKI. Seems to have been adopted into the KANESADA(1) School. Up until MEI-O 1492, the character "SADA" is rendered in the normal "JO" form. We have dated MEI in the following: NOSHU SEKI JU KANESADA SAKU NOSHU SEKI JU KANESADA TSUKURU These MEI also show a SOSHO Grass-style rendering of the SEKI character.
As of BUN-GI NINEN - 1502, he is using his famous "No-Sada". This is given, and pronounced in HIRAGANA, in all Japanese scholarship and texts as: NO-SADA and refers specifically to his cursive rendering of the SADA character, alone. Because of this, KANESADA(2) himself has become known as, "No-Sada"
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From EISHO he has been awarded his IZUMI-no-KAMI title, as we see signatures IZUMI-no-KAMI KANESADA and IZUMI-no-KAMI FUJIWARA KANESADA, all with his NO-SADA character form. EI-SHO 14, we see a work for the the ISE YAMADA with KIKUMON. Making different styles is his career attribute. KANESADA sword style differs. One is noted in SEKI KANEMOTO style. KO-ITAME HADA has MASAME with JINIE and SHIRAKE-UTSURI. Tight NIOI-GUCHI of wildly placed GUNOME-CHOJI MIDARE BA with small TOBI-YAKI. Can have KOSHIBA. NOTARE O-MIDARE BA and TOGARI BA. YAHAZU "Arrow-notch" MIDARE BA. KO-GUNOME with FUSHI knots. One has very equal KO-GUNOME. JIZO BOSHI and JIZO HAKIKAKE BOSHI are slightly SAAGARI: Low. His are SAIJO O-WAZAMONO - supreme cutting.
KANESADA KANESADA SAKU NOSHU JU KANESADA SAKU NOSHU SEKI JU KANESADA SAKU IZUMI-no-KAMI KANESADA IZUMI-no-KAMI FUJIWARA KANESADA
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"No-Sada"
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Kanesada - "No-Sada"
Katana

Kanesada Katana
Nagasa:
2 Shaku 3 Sun
3 Bu (70.56cm)
Sori: 7 Bu
(2.1cm)
Moto-haba: 9
Bu 8 Rin
(2.96cm)
Saki-haba: 6
Bu 2 Rin
(1.9cm)
Kissaki-naga:
1 Sun 6 Rin
(4.89cm)
Nakago: 5 Sun
1 Bu (17.42cm)
Shinogi-tsukuri, Ihori-mune, Sakizori Tachi to
Chu-Kissaki.
Tightly knit
Ko-Itame and
Masame with
JiNie and
Shirake-Utsuri.
Chu-width
Aski-Notare
has occasional
Gunome
protuberances
in fine
Ko-Nie. Hamon
becomes deeper
toward the
Monouchi,
filling the
Kissaki in a
full
Notare-Komi
Boshi that
becomes
Hakikake
Kaeri.
Considered
Ubu, the
Nakago has
been altered.
Three
Mekugi-ana,
one filled,
Kirijiri and
signed:
Izumi-no-Kami
Fujiwara Kane
Nosada Saku
Rin Bei Tosha
Kai Jin Retsu
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