國永
國永
Recorded (meibutsu Tsurumaru Kuninaga)
The family's catalog of celebrated blades (名物) presented to shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune in Kyōhō 4 (1719). Records ~274 blades of – manufacture (168 extant + ~80 burned + ~26 later additions), grouped by smith with valuations and provenance. This honor tags smiths whose work is recorded in the catalog; the detail field carries per-smith counts where the published tally is exact, or 所載 + named blades where only inclusion is verified.
Other artisans of the Gojo school
Kuninaga(國永) was a Japanese swordsmith of the Gojo school in Yamashiro province, active during the Kantoku (1044-1046) period.
The work follows the Yamashiro-den tradition.