30" Ubu Yamamura Hiromitsu O-Yari w Iron fittings and Iron Wrap Same'
Created for a warrior, it remains exactly as it was - wholly Ubu and a complete Samurai weapon. The Nakago extends through the whole pole - which is ovoid and stout.
The mount w/Saya stands 6'3"

 
Yamamura Mounatin Village in Echigo https://www.sho-shin.com/hoku19.htm

Masamune "10 students" mainline Sensei join Kyo Nobukuni in Echigo Yamamura. 
Colleagues Go Yoshihiro and Etchu Norishige teach Norishige's son NORISHIGE(2) TEI-JI 1362
Soshu SADAMUNE student KYO NOBUKUNI teaches MASANOBU (1) TEI-JI 1362 
This is a cloistered old Koto mainline Soshu and Nobukuni school that pass their secrets into the future.
Note Ji-gane and Hada in superior steel below. 
 

Arcing Inazuma follows profuse Chikei through running Mokume Hada

  

Kofu Ju Minamoto Hiromitsu Saku
  Yamamura is a closed Koto school, staunchly unchanging through time. Yamamura Hiromitsu worked the ancient Sagami/Masamune Nobukuni tradition in Kamakura where Masamune had worked. His Kofu Mei shows Hiromitsu traveled and made swords in the Edo area of Musashi Provence.
30" Nagasa
41 1/4" Nakago has a 15 1/2" tang extension
running through the whole pole length.
Two Mekugi-ana

43 1/2" Original Pole has Iron wrap Same',
Iron fittings and 31 1/2" Yari-Saya

Running Mokume Hada has Ji-Nie and profuse Chikei
where strongly arcing Inazuma runs though the Jigane.
Nioi Deki Chu-Sugu Ko-Gunome-Midare Ba
of Hataraki and Kinisuji.
Ko-Maru Boshi with Long Naga-Kaeri arms the Shinogi.
Two Mekugi-ana and Nakago extension

Yamamura tradition comes about in Echigo when Kyo Nobukuni style is received in Yamamura for the Oei.
See https://www.sho-shin.com/hoku18.htm for the Kyo-Soshu style blends in Echigo.
Yamamura: https://www.sho-shin.com/hoku19.htm

Hiromitsu worked in Musashi
amid the very best of late Edo stylists.
  He made this imposing weapon for the Restoration struggles.

This was a hotbed of Shogun supporters, who held for the old ways and the Rebels, who were working to destroy the government if favor of Imperial Restoration.



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