NihontoWatchA swordsmith known as the founder of the Akamatsu Taro school who forged swords from the Showa to the Heisei era, although his lineage served as swordmakers for generations, they turned to cutlery smithing due to the Meiji Haitorei, and later he entered the tutelage of Kurihara Akihide (Kurihara Hikosaburo), reviving the family as swordsmiths in the generation of Kaneshige. A swordsmith active since before the war, he was highly regarded to the extent of being designated as Sekiwake rank, Owazamono, and among the Jo-ko in the Showa 17 provisional ranking of contemporary swordsmiths by Kurihara Hikosaburo Sensei. The current head of the Akamatsu Taro school, the swordsmith Akamatsu Taro Kanemitsu, is the grandson of the swordsmith Kaneshige. - Condition of the Toshin In a goso姿 with a wide mihaba and somewhat thick kasane, the jigane is forged in a dense, moist muji-hada, the hamon is tempered in nioi-deki with choji mixed with gunome, and on the chu-kissaki, the boshi has a sharp quality with a deep kaeri. It has a heavy, substantial weight and is a recommended sword as a robust shizanto. - Koshirae The kanagu consist of fuchi-kashira with plating, the tsuka is made slim with the tsuka-ito tightly wrapped, a mokko-gata tsuba is fitted, and it is a koshirae housed in a kuro-ishime saya.
NihontoWatchOffered by Ikeda Art
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Shōwa to the present: destruction and revival
The twentieth century nearly killed the craft twice: wartime distortion, then the occupation ban. The NBTHK’s founding in 1948 and licensed forging from 1953 rebuilt the sword as an art, crowned by Living National Treasures and the mukansa rank.
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