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Aoe sword hunt

Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2013-11-10 23:32

While working on Sword Database I occasionally do deep dives into the works of a particular school or smith. Not too long ago I recorded 99 Awataguchi swords (the number may grow by the time you may be opening this link) in various books/magazines/internet articles. Recently I found a good number of swords of Osafune Kagemitsu - this is an interesting one because Kagemitsu left many signatures with dates.

My next target is Aoe school.

This is a placeholder page where I will be tracking my progress.

Swords by school

Aoe

Ko-Aoe
Chu-Aoe
Sue-Aoe - none recorded yet
#1Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2013-11-10 23:51.

Ko-Aoe

I'll start with Ko-Aoe smiths.
#2Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2013-11-17 17:29.

Aoe Nobutsugu 延次 vs 信次

It appears that Meikan (and derived sources) lists Nobutsugu using 2 readings, 延次 and 信次:

Nobutsugu 延次 NOB92 <--> Nobutsugu 信次 NOB540
Nobutsugu 延次 NOB94 <--> Nobutsugu 信次 NOB541
Nobutsugu 延次 NOB96 <--> Nobutsugu 信次 NOB542
#3Submitted by kazarena on Sat, 2013-11-23 23:25.

Ko-Aoe mumei swords

0000-1282
0000-1147
0000-1291
#4Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2013-12-15 22:51.

Senoo
#5Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2013-12-15 22:21.

Zuikan records

Ko-Aoe: p. 861-875 [1]
Chu-Aoe & other: p. 875-895 [1]

References

  1. Nihonto Zuikan, Kataoka, Ginsaku , Volume Koto, Tokyo, p.1067, (1984)
#6Submitted by kazarena on Sun, 2014-02-09 16:52.

All Bitchū smiths cross-checked against NMK, Sesko

I went through all 555 smiths from Bitchū province and reconciled them against Nihonto Meikan and Sesko's Index of Japanese Swordsmiths.

This is a good foundation for further research on Aoe, but for the moment I'm switching to Ichimonji :-)