NihontoWatch理想の鉄を求めて製鉄のための小型炉まで製作した天田昭次刀匠。山本五十六元帥の佩刀を鍛えた名工天田貞吉の子で父没後十三歳にして栗原彦三郎の日本刀鍛錬伝習所に入門。三十年の第一回「作刀技術発表会」では優秀賞受賞を皮切りに三十一年三十二年と連続受賞の快挙。その後十年の雌伏の期間を経て昭和四十三年に復活。以降三度の正宗賞の受賞を経て平成九年に重要無形文化財に認定される。
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As written by the shop
Niigata · around 1926-1989
Tōken Taikan top 87%
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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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