Jūyō Tōken Daishinbō Yūkei Yari

Number

S-ML-017

Smith Name

Daishinbō Yūkei

Active Period

Shōwa (正和, 1312-1317)

School

Sōshū

Province

Sagami

Mei

Daishinbō (大進坊)

Rating

Jūyō Tōken

Nagasa

21.0 cm

Daishinbō (大進坊), Shōwa (正和, 1312-1317), Sagami province, the Kotō Meizukushi Taizen tells us that Daishinbō was born in the 5th year of the Kenkyū era (建久, 1194) and died in 131st year of his life in the 1st year of the Shōchū era (正中, 1324). He was a smith and horimono master, son of Shintōgo Kunimitsu, Yūkei (祐慶) was the Buddhist priest name of Kunimitsu ́s third son Kuniyasu (国泰). Daishinbō Yūkei followed a religious path and went from Kamakura over the Sōtō-jinja (走湯神社) and some years as yamabushi mountain at Mt. Haguro (羽黒) in Dewa province finally to Nikkō (日光) where he worked as priest of the Futarasan-jinja (二荒山神社), the Sōtō-jinja belongs to a temple complex of the Izusan-jinja (伊豆山神社) which is located in the present-day city of Atami (熱海) in Shizuoka Prefecture. The Shinpen Sagami no Kuni fudoki-kō (新編相模国風土記稿), 1841 mention a signature of Daishinbō which bears the supplement „Sōtō-Daigongen“ (走湯大権現), an area at the foot of the mountain where the Sōtō-jinja and Izusan-jinja are located. Tokaido (東海道), saijō-saku.