NihontoWatchThe swordsmith Tanigawa Moriyoshi became an apprentice to Moritaka Yasuhiro, who followed the lineage of the Kongo-byoe school that flourished in Chikuzen during the Muromachi period, in Showa 9 at the age of fourteen, and he earned high acclaim for a style overflowing with vigor that calls to mind Minamoto Kiyomaro. At the Shinsakuto exhibitions of the Token Hakubutsukan, he was honored with special prizes such as the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Mainichi Shimbun Award, and the Nihon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Chairman's Award, and he was recognized as a Mukansa swordsmith in Showa 60.
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Kumamoto · around 1926-1989
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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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