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.
源貞弘は大正十一年二月八日奈良の産で、本名喜多弘。昭和十四年月山貞勝に入門。業成って頭角を顕し、技量優れて師の片腕となり、師の没後はその嫡子貞一(人間国宝)の作刀を援けて鎚を振るった。言わば月山一門の陰の功労者であり、自作は少ないものの相州伝の名品を遺す、知る人ぞ知る名工。
Sadahiro貞弘
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As written by the shop
Nara · around 1926-1989
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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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