武州住 赤坂 彦十郎忠時作 四方菱竪縞透鍔
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Akasaka Tsuba Tadatoki 1st generation

No.145008

Busyu jyu Akasaka Hikojurou Tadatoki-saku Shihou Hishitatejima-sukashi tsuba

¥360,000（tax included）
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武州住 赤坂 彦十郎忠時作　Busyu jyu Akasaka Hikojurou Tadatoki-saku
Ura-mei
四方菱竪縞透　Shihou Hishitatejima-sukashi
Kiwame
Akasaka
Size

Length 7.6cm　Width 7.3cm　Seppadai 0.5cm　Weight 64.0g

Country
Musashi
Drscription
Tatemarugata Tetsuji Jisukashi Marumimi

Akasaka school Tadatoki (first generation) Hikojuro, a coterie of Tadamune. His real surname is also written as Hozumi.

During his tenure of office for 39 years from 1707 (1707), in his later years he handed over his family headship to the second generation Tadamune and called himself Tadamune. He is known as Hikojuro Tadatoki Akasaka, the sumo family of Bushu Akasaka.

He makes a design-like groundwork tsuba such as shrine head, paulownia, thin, tea whisk, suehiro, and myoga on a round iron ground.
He died in the 3rd year of Enkyo (1746).The first and second generations of the Akasaka school, Tadamasa and his son, moved to Edo around the Kan'ei era, where they produced tsuba by adding ingenuity to the Owari-tou method and the Kyo-tou method, and prospered until the end of the Edo period. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation (Ko-Akasaka) have good forging of the iron base, and many of them are round and thick with round ears. From around the time of Tadatsuki IV, the tsuba became a little thinner and became more elaborately crafted. The name Akasaka was used from the place where the craftsmen of this family lived (present-day Akasaka area in Minato Ward, Tokyo).
赤坂 彦十郎 忠時 鍔 保存刀装具