Articles |BIZEN MITSUTADA 備前光忠
Read morePerhaps the most famous of all schools of sword making is the Bizen School (備前). Within the Bizen School (備前),…
Articles |SHODAI HIZEN TADAYOSHI 初代肥前忠吉
Read moreHashimoto Shinzaemon (橋本新左衛門) was born in Takagise-cho, saga, Hizen (肥前) in 1572 to Hashimoto Michihiro (橋本道弘) who was the son…
Articles |UCHIGATANA KOSHIRAE 打刀拵
Read moreThe term, uchigatana (打刀), is made up of two Japanese words. The word, uchi (打), comes from the verb, utsu,…
Articles |BIZEN OSAFUNE MOTOSHIGE 備前長船元重
Read moreBizen Osafune Motoshige (備前長船元重) is generally thought to be the son of Morishige (守重) of the Hatakeda School (畠田系). Other…
Articles |SÔSHÛ YUKIMITSU 相州行光
Read moreThe Sôshû (相州)tradition denotes swords that were made in Kamakura in Sôshû (相州) also known as Sagami (相模) province. This…
Articles |THE UDA SCHOOL 宇多系
Read moreThe founder of the Uda School (宇多) is considered to have been Kunimitsu (国光). He was originally from the Uda…
Articles |BIZEN OSAFUNE CHIKAKAGE 備前長船近景
Read moreBizen Osafune Chikakage (備前長船近景) was the son of Chikatsune(近恒). He was the student of Nagamitsu (長光) and a contemporary of…
Articles |HIGO DAIJÔ SADAKUNI 肥後大掾貞国
Read moreHigo Daijô Sadakuni (肥後大掾貞国) was from Echizen (越前) Province. He worked around the beginning of the Shinto Era, around Keicho…
THE SÔSHÛ SCHOOL OF THE NANBOKUCHÔ ERA –SÔSHÛ AKIHIRO 相州秋広
Read moreIn the year 1185 after his victory at the battle of Dan-no-ura, Minamoto Yoritomo decided to move the center of…
Articles |THE ICHIMONJI SCHOOL 一文字派
Read moreTHE ICHIMONJI SCHôOL 一文字派 The Ichimonji School (一文字) in Bizen Province was a large school that was founded in the…
Articles |ROKUDAI TADAYOSHI 六代忠吉
Read moreRokudai Tadayoshi (六代忠吉), the sixth generation, was born in 1736. The fifth generation Tadayoshi (忠吉) had two sons and the…
Articles |HORIKAWA KUNITAKE 堀川国武
Read moreKunitake (国武) was a student of the famous Shinto sword maker, Horikawa Kunihiro (堀川国廣). Kunitake (国武) lived around the first…
