Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
NihontoWatchNihontoWatchKiyoshige was a tosotsu of Nagato Province during the Edo period. In the "Kiyoshige Keizu" within the "Shinto Mei Shuroku" authored by Morioka Tomotaka, it is stated, "The founder, of the Hasegawa clan, came from Yamato Hase," indicating his home province was Yamato; along with Tamai Masakiyo and others, he used the title Nio, served the Mori family, and wielded his hammer in the Hagi castle town.
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Nagato · around 1624-1673
The Edo period (1615 to 1868)
Edo was the sword’s age of connoisseurship: the Hon’ami appraisers, the shogunal register of famous blades of 1719, and a thriving literature turned the sword into an object of study even as it ceased to be drawn in war.
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