NihontoWatchThis is a tachi made by Yoshimitsu in the Gendaito period. The blade features a fine ko-itame hada and a suguha hamon. It is accompanied by a shirasaya.
NihontoWatchOffered by Asahi Token
Niigata · Heisei-Reiwa
1 piece on the market now
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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