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Important Cultural Property
Sword (Katana), Signed "Rai Kunimitsu" (with Inscription "Polished by Umetada")
- Museum No.
- EK215
Photo No：180530_EL_0015
Color type：Color
| Title | Sword (Katana), Signed "Rai Kunimitsu" (with Inscription "Polished by Umetada") |
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| Designation | Important Cultural Property |
| Artist | Rai Kunimitsu (Umetada Suriage) |
| Category | Metalwork (E), Sword |
| Country | Japan |
| Period | Kamakura |
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Rai Kunimitsu, active at the end of the Kamakura period (1185-1333), was a swordsmith of the Rai School in Kyoto. Even within the Rai School, he made a wide range of swords, varying from slender, classical blades to broad, magnificent ones. His temper lines also varied from the basic straight temper line (J., suguha), characteristic of the Rai School, to narrow straight (J., hoso-suguha) and wide straight (hiro-suguha) temper lines.
This katana blade, featuring Rai Kunimitsu's representative style, is broad with a wide, straight temper line in which dots (J., yô, literally, "leaves") and streaks (J., ashi, literally, "legs") cross the temper line perpendicular to it and near the cutting edge of the blade. The blade was a long sword (J., tachi), but in the Edo period (1615-1868), the swordsmith Umetada Myôjû (1556-1631) shortened the tang and made it into this katana blade.
Japan-Kamakura