Tataki-Nomi Japanese Hand Made Timber Chisel By Second Generation Kiyotada - 24mm

Smith name: Shimamura Kouzaburo 

Steel: White Steel

Blade width: 24mm

Blade thickness: Blade Bottom(about 10.9mm)，Top of Blade（about 7.1mm）

Manufacture Era: 1990s (according to collector’s memory)

Weight: 316g

Blade Angles: 29°

Total length: 315mm

Neck length: 75mm

Blade length: 90mm

Types of wooden handles: Japanese Red Oak（Akakashi）

Accessories：—

Additional Information: Unused, The tip of the blade has rusted. Can be easily removed by sharpening. 

Tataki nomi by Kiyotada with mark of 天峯(Amamine). This mark belongs to nagaoka wholesaler in Sanjo Niigata Prefecture. Nagaoka wholesaler has sold kiyoyada chisels under many different brand names. Some of these marks contained the two Chinese characters for “清忠(Kiyotada)”.
A story I heard, the owner of the suiheya store was very angry when he found out about these marks. Because he is the owner of the Kiyotada mark (legally).To avoid conflicts, Nagaoka Store uses some marks that do not include Kiyotada at all. But the part of the tang that is not visible to the chisel is usually with the Kiyotada mark. (The third picture)