NihontoWatchIt has appeared, it has appeared; while the Ningen Kokuho swordsmith Amada Akitsugu won the Masamune-sho, the highest peak of awards, three times, a masterpiece meito has appeared that is a copy of Yamashiro-den Rai Kunitoshi, identical to the other sword that won the Masamune-sho when he produced two swords simultaneously upon winning his first Masamune-sho in Showa 52. Because the Amada Akitsugu Memorial Museum currently exists in Niigata Prefecture, the museum collects the swords of Amada Akitsugu Sensei as much as possible, so his works do not come out into the city; this is a meito by the Ningen Kokuho swordsmith Amada Akitsugu that is currently few in number and extremely precious. The swordsmith Amada Akitsugu was a master smith who was reticent, sincere, and enthusiastic in research with a strong artisan spirit, whose strong obsession with iron and powerful stance in challenging the reproduction of old meito gave people a wonderful and great impression. Real name Mr. Amada Seiichi, born August 4, Showa 2. In Showa 15, he entered the Nihonto Tanren Denshu-jo located at the former residence of Katsu Kaishu under the master Kurihara Hikosaburo. In Showa 30, he submitted to the 1st Sakuto Gijutsu Hyokai and received the Yushu-sho. Thereafter, he won the highest peak Masamune-sho 3 times, and many other Tokusho. In Showa 53, he was recognized as a Niigata-ken Juyo Mukei Bunkazai, and in Heisei 7, he was designated a Ningen Kokuho. This sword is a meito that is far too famous as a masterpiece work, being one of the swords made simultaneously at the time Amada Akitsugu Sensei won his first Masamune-sho. Copying a meito by Yamashiro Rai Kunitoshi from the Kamakura period, the sugata has an ikubi-kissaki and manifests the tachi sugata of the mid-Kamakura period with little difference between the moto and saki; the jigane is a well-tightened ko-itame hada with haniku, and the hori has a skillfully carved bo-hi. The hamon is a sugu-cho ha in Yamashiro-den Rai Kunitoshi style with nioi-deki and ko-nie, tempered without unevenness from the moto to the saki, and is a kaishin-saku of Amada Akitsugu Sensei. Because the "Token Denshokan Amada Akitsugu Memorial Museum" has been built in Niigata Prefecture, the works of the swordsmith Amada Akitsugu are not sold externally and currently almost never appear on the market; please by all means enjoy this meito copying Yamashiro Rai Kunitoshi, made simultaneously at the time the precious Ningen Kokuho Amada Akitsugu Sensei won the Masamune-sho.
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Niigata · around 1926-1989
Tōken Taikan top 87%
6 pieces 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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