●会 期 2024年7月10日(水) → 15日(月・祝) 
●会 場 京都髙島屋 S.C.（百貨店）6階 美術画廊
  京都市下京区四条通河原町西入真町５２　TEL (075) 221-8811
https://www.takashimaya.co.jp/kyoto/topics/art.html

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渾身の最新作を展示・販売いたします。後継の月山貞伸刀匠の作品も出品予定。

ギャラリートーク ： 7月13日（土） 午後3時から会場にて

Modern swordsmith exhibition and sale
“ Gassan Sadatoshi ”

His latest works will be displayed for sale
at Kyoto-Takashimaya Department store (6F Art Gallery)

July 10th (Wed) → 15th (Mon) 2024
52 Shin-cho, Shijo-dori Kawaramachi Nishi-iru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
TEL: (075) 221-8811

Gallery talk at 15:00 on July 13th (Sat)

※ Exhibition hours is subject to change.
Please confirm the Takashimaya website about business days and hours in advance.
https://www.takashimaya.co.jp/kyoto/topics/art.html

We look forward to your visiting.

Some swords made by SADANOBU, a son of Gassan Sadatoshi, are also displayed for sale.
【出品予定作 main exhibited】



刀 Katana / 刃長 (Blade length) 2 尺5 寸4 分5 厘 77.1 cm
相州伝に倶利伽羅龍・鯉の滝昇り樋中浮彫り
So-shu forging pattern with Kurikara dragon・Climbing a carp up waterfall engraving
白鞘入 with Shirasaya, a wooden storage case



短刀 Tanto 刃長 (Blade length) 8 寸8 分 26 6 cm
月山伝 綾杉肌 に昇り龍彫り
Gassan (Ayasugi) forging pattern with rising a dragon engraving
白鞘入 with Shirasaya , a wooden storage case



短刀 Tanto / 刃長 (Blade length) 9寸5分 28.7 cm
月山伝 (綾杉肌)に昇龍彫り Gassan (Ayasugi) forging pattern with rising a dragon engraving
附) 黒漆塗印籠刻鞘合口拵 With a black lacquered Inro-kizami scabbard mounting


月山貞利 (1946 - )　本名 月山 清　　　奈良県指定無形文化財保持者認定
　　　Gassan Sadatoshi　The holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property in Nara
 

GASSAN SADATOSHI (real name is Gassan Kiyoshi) was born in Osaka in 1946 as a son of Gassan Sadaichi who was the Living　National Treasure. He started to learn making swords from his father in 1969 after graduating from university. He has received many awards in some competitions so far, and became a one of representative swordsmiths. He inherited the Ayasugi (resembles a row of cedar trees) forging and blade engraving of Gassan tradition as the 5th generation of the Osaka Gassan family, and is very active in Japan and abroad receiving offers from shrines, temples, the Metropolitan Museum and Yokozuna (the grand champion of sumo) etc. He has also produced many pupils including his successor, Gassan Sadanobu, and is focusing on training of them.
In 2019 he offered a blade to the Imperial Household Agency for the court ceremony.
C:\Users\haiji1go\Desktop\img_kihada.jpg 綾杉肌 (月山肌)
規則的な柾目模様が大きな波が連なったようにうねり、波の谷間に渦状の杢目を加えた独特の鍛え肌を「綾杉肌」と呼び、月山鍛冶により約800年連綿と伝承されてきたことから月山肌とも呼ばれる。(呼称の由来については諸説あり。)

AYASUGI (=Gassan) forging
Ayasugi forging pattern is the primary characteristic of the Gassan smiths who has a tradition more than almost 800 years old history. It is the regularly wavy steel surface grain pattern resembling a row of Japanese cedar grain.