Fw: Keigen shinto or Keygen shinto

Forwarded from another list FYI.
Regards,
Barry Thomas.

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From: "Maximo" <maximo@...>
To: <token_kenkyu_kai@...>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:41 PM
Subject: Keigen shinto or Keygen shinto


Please,
Does anyone have info about this school? in special about Nanban-Tetsu, type
of hada?
http://www.tokensugita.com/NT.htm
Is the Yasutsugu school a good example?
http://www.nihonto.com/abtartyasutsugu.html

Keigen-Shinto period (1596 - 1623)
Kissaki = O-kissaki (could it have a little ikari kissaki?)
Sori = less than half inch?
Nagasa = 70 cm?
Hada = Very tight itame?
Hamon = type ko-choji?
Nakago = ?
Any particular thing?

Is the number 11 or number 8 Keygen shinto?
http://www.touken.or.jp/syurui/tokuchozu.html
Which is the principal difference with last muromachi?
Thank you in advance,
Máximo

Máximo D. Marchionni
www.maximom.com.ar
Maximo@...

Keigen-Shinto period (1596 - 1623)
Keigen is a name of an era in Shinto time made by mixing the initial part of
the eras Keicho and Genna. Swords made during these eras, Keicho and Genna,
are called Keigen-Shinto. In this period a lot of Tachi made in the
Nanbokucho period were shortened to adjust the size at about 70cm in order
to wear them in the waist as requested by the new fighting style (and
fashion). Mihaba near the Kissaki and near Nakago is almost same size and
Kissaki is O-Kissaki. This shape became to be popular, but the difference
between Nanbokucho blades and Keigen-Shinto is Kasane. Kasane in now is
thick. These shape will appear again in the end of Edo Era The influence of
the European culture increased with the increasing of commercial exchanges.
Goods where excanged between Europe and Japan in this period and european
iron was imported, too. The japanese name for this iron is Nanban-Tetsu,
"steel of the Southern Barbarians". Smiths begun to proudly sign on the tang
of their creatures "made with NanbanTetsu" because european items were
really fashinating japanese people, but Kokan Nagayama quotes in his "Token
Kantei Dokuhon" that such a steel wasn't better then Tamahagane for making
NihonTo due to the impurities in it, especially phosporus. This foreign
steel is brigter then the japanese one and soon the fashion went out.