NihontoWatchKanetsugu tosho was the son of Kimura Kaneshige, who studied under Kurihara Akihide, and was born in Showa 26. Modeling his work after the widely known master smith of the late Edo period, Minamoto Kiyomaro, he specializes in tsukurikomi with an extremely wide motohaba and sakihaba, o-kissaki, and very thick kasane.
NihontoWatchAkamatsu Taro Kanetsugu赤松太郎兼嗣
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Higo (Yatsushiro) · Heisei-Reiwa
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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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