NihontoWatch隅谷正峯師は大正十年（1921）石川県松任市の生れ。戦前立命館大学在学中に固山宗次の流れを汲む桜井正幸に師事し、戦後石川県松任市の自宅に鍛錬所傘笠亭を設けて一文字や長光等の備前古名刀を研究。丁子を多彩に重ね合わせた隅谷丁子を完成させる。昭和五十六年1981）に重要無形文化財に認定。平成十年（1998）没。
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Ishikawa · around 1921-1998
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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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