NihontoWatchAkamatsu Taro Kanemitsu, the tosho (real name: Kimura Mitsuhiro), resides in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. Born in Showa 54 (1979). In Heisei 10, he entered apprenticeship under his father, the tosho Kanetsugu, completed the Art Sword Tosho Technology Preservation Training Session in Heisei 14, and received his sword-making license in Heisei 15. He excels at crafting both shinken for appreciation and shinken for budo, and starting with his first submission and first award at the "New Sword Exhibition" in Heisei 16, he has received various awards almost every year. The Kimura family is also of a lineage that draws from the okakae-kaji of the Sagara family of the Hitoyoshi Domain. In addition to his father, the tosho Kanetsugu, the tosho Kanehiro and the tosho Kaneteru are his uncles, and the tosho Kaneyuki is his younger brother. Our company commissions the tosho Kanemitsu to craft shinken for appreciation that toshoku (such as sayashi, habakishi (shiroganeshi), and tsukamaki-shi) can confidently submit to events like the Contemporary Toshoku Exhibition (sponsored by The Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai) or the Toshoku Technology Exhibition (sponsored by The NBSK), and this is one such blade. The habaki accompanying this katana is a work that won the Gold Prize, Second Seat in the Shirogane Section of the Tosho Division at the 13th New Japanese Sword Polishing and Koshirae Toshoku Technology Exhibition held in Reiwa 5 (2023). Furthermore, the shirasaya was handled by a sayashi who has repeatedly won awards in the Shirasaya Section of the New Japanese Sword Polishing and Koshirae Toshoku Technology Exhibition. *Kanteisho is not included.
NihontoWatchAkamatsu Taro Kanemitsu赤松太郎兼光
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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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¥1,500,000