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Shonai Shoami Tsuba (NBTHK) |
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![]() The above kanji are done in a style of Archaic Chinese Seal Script of the Eastern Zhou to Qin dynasty period. This style appeared very early in the development of Chinese writing, as far back in the Shang dynasty oracle bone script. |
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![]() Unknown Kakihan (kao) of Tsubaco |
![]() NBTHK Hozon attribution to Shonai Shoami. |
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Shōnai (庄内藩 Shōnai-han),
also known as Tsuruoka-han, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period,
located in Dewa Province. Though it was officially named Tsuruoka
(鶴岡藩 Tsuruoka-han),
it was commonly known as Shōnai. It was famous for being ruled by one of
the great fudai
daimyō houses, the Sakai, and it achieved great prominence in the late Edo
period as a military power. Shōnai had command of the Shinchōgumi,
the unit organized for the security of Edo in the 1860s. The Sakai
clan (酒井氏 Sakai-shi),
descend from Emperor Seiwa and are a branch of the Minamoto
clan by the Nitta clan. Nitta
Yoshisue, 4th son of Nitta Yoshishige
(+ 1202), settled at Tokugawa (Kozuke province) and took the name of the place. Tokugawa Arichika
(14th century), descendant of Yoshisue in the 7th generation is the common
ancestor of the Sakai clan and the Matsudaira
clan. Due to this fact, the Sakai served the Matsudaira as senior vassals
throughout the Sengoku Period, and were classified as fudai from before the
foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The Sakai soon became chief
retainers under Tokugawa Ieyasu, and split into many different
branches in the subsequent decades. Fabulous Tsuba by Shonai Shoami Tsubaco. |
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$1200.00 |