NihontoWatchHorii Nobuhide was the legitimate son of Horii Hideaki of the Hokkaido Muroran Steel Works, who, along with Gassan Sadakazu and Sugawara Kanenori, upheld a cornerstone of the sword-making tradition following the Haitorei of the Meiji period.
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As written by the shop
Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Hokkaido · around 1926-1989
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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