NihontoWatchThe swordsmith Miyairi Kiyohira was born in Nagano Prefecture in Taisho 13. He studied the craft of smithing under his elder brother Yukihira, who was eleven years his senior, and wielded his hammer following the model of the master craftsman from the same province, Minamoto Kiyomaro. Against the background of that refined technique, his works, which possess a powerful sugata and clear jiba, have been honored with numerous special prizes at the Shinsaku Meito Ten.
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Nagano · around 1926-1989
Tōken Taikan top 60%
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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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