NihontoWatchTanigawa Moriyoshi, a swordsmith born in Kumamoto in Taisho 9, became a disciple of Moritaka Yasuhiro, who followed the lineage of Chikuzen Kongo Hyoe, at the age of fourteen in Showa 9. The style he established after great effort features a wide mihaba at the moto and saki with an o-kissaki tsukuri-komi, a bright ji-ba, and kinsen and sunagashi running within the ha, evoking the work of Minamoto Kiyomaro who flashed like lightning around the Tenpo era. At the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Shinsakuto-ten, he continuously won special prizes such as the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award and became Mukansa, leaving a significant mark on the sword world.
NihontoWatchOffered by Choshuya
9 on the market
As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Kumamoto · around 1926-1989
9 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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