MIYAMOTO KANENORI KANENORI, MIYAMOTO AKA: SUGUWARA KANENORI TEISHITSU GIGEI IN (Imperial Household Artisan) SUGATA: SHINOGI ZUKURI MEI: TEISHITSU GIGEIIN SUGUWARA KANENORI HACHI JU YON Ō SAKU DATE: TAISHO GAN NEN HACHI GATSU KICHI JITSU NAGASA: 75.565 cm (29.75′′) OVERALL: 95.567 cm (37.625′′) MIHABA: 3.175 cm (1.25′′) KASANE: 0.63cm (0.25′′) SORI: 1.905 cm (0.75′′) NAKAGO: UBU MEKUGI ANA: ONE YASURIME: KIRI (also called Yoko-Yasurime) MUNE: IORI HADA: HADATATSU, HADAMONO, YUKUMO-GITAI (* see description below) HAMON: MIDARE BOSHI: KOMARU HORIMONO OMOTE: KAKITOSHI BO-HI HORIMONO URA: KAKITOSHI BO-HI HABAKI: 1 PIECE COPPER KOSHIRAE This is truly a gem of Gendaito! Miyamoto Kanenori 1830-1926. Real name Miyamoto Shigahiko, surname Suguwara. Kanenori is a Josaku rated smith who lived in an incredible time. He witnessed firsthand Japan’s transition from the era of feudal lords to a modern world. His works span over 60 years transitioning through Shinshinto, Meji and Taisho eras. Kanenori was born 1830 in Ô-kaki Takeda village, Hoki province and was the son of a brewer in. He had aspirations of becoming a sword smith even at an early age. In 1851, at 21 years of age he entered an apprenticeship with Bizen Yokoyama Sukekane. It was Sukekane who gave him the “Kane” (包) character. Kanenori attained a couple of prestigious titles beginning in 1866 when Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835-1895) granted him the honorary title Noto no Kami. In Meiji 39 (1906) he became a teishitsu-gigei ́in (帝室技芸員), a title or rank that was introduced to preserve traditional arts and crafts not to be lost in the modernizing Japan. Teishitsu-gigei ́in was the forerunner of the modern Ningen-kokuhō or Living National Treasure. There were only two smiths to ever receive this title, Minamoto Kanenori and Gassan Sadakazu. He became hired swordsmith of Chiba-no-suke ARAO, the chief retainer in Ansei 3(1856). He offered his sword to Kômyô Ten-nô (in same year). In 1868, he visited and stayed Inariyama Tsurug

MIYAMOTO KANENORI KANENORI, MIYAMOTO AKA: SUGUWARA KANENORI TEISHITSU GIGEI IN (Imperial Household Artisan) SUGATA: SHINOGI ZUKURI MEI: TEISHITSU GIGEIIN SUGUWARA KANENORI HACHI JU YON Ō SAKU DATE: TAISHO GAN NEN HACHI GATSU KICHI JITSU NAGASA: 75.565 cm (29.75′′) OVERALL: 95.567 cm (37.625′′) MIHABA: 3.175 cm (1.25′′) KASANE: 0.63cm (0.25′′) SORI: 1.905 cm (0.75′′) NAKAGO: UBU MEKUGI ANA: ONE YASURIME: KIRI (also called Yoko-Yasurime) MUNE: IORI HADA: HADATATSU, HADAMONO, YUKUMO-GITAI (* see description below) HAMON: MIDARE BOSHI: KOMARU HORIMONO OMOTE: KAKITOSHI BO-HI HORIMONO URA: KAKITOSHI BO-HI HABAKI: 1 PIECE COPPER KOSHIRAE This is truly a gem of Gendaito! Miyamoto Kanenori 1830-1926. Real name Miyamoto Shigahiko, surname Suguwara. Kanenori is a Josaku rated smith who lived in an incredible time. He witnessed firsthand Japan’s transition from the era of feudal lords to a modern world. His works span over 60 years transitioning through Shinshinto, Meji and Taisho eras. Kanenori was born 1830 in Ô-kaki Takeda village, Hoki province and was the son of a brewer in. He had aspirations of becoming a sword smith even at an early age. In 1851, at 21 years of age he entered an apprenticeship with Bizen Yokoyama Sukekane. It was Sukekane who gave him the “Kane” (包) character. Kanenori attained a couple of prestigious titles beginning in 1866 when Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835-1895) granted him the honorary title Noto no Kami. In Meiji 39 (1906) he became a teishitsu-gigei ́in (帝室技芸員), a title or rank that was introduced to preserve traditional arts and crafts not to be lost in the modernizing Japan. Teishitsu-gigei ́in was the forerunner of the modern Ningen-kokuhō or Living National Treasure. There were only two smiths to ever receive this title, Minamoto Kanenori and Gassan Sadakazu. He became hired swordsmith of Chiba-no-suke ARAO, the chief retainer in Ansei 3(1856). He offered his sword to Kômyô Ten-nô (in same year). In 1868, he visited and stayed Inariyama Tsurug