NihontoWatchThis is a work forged by the swordsmith Yakuwa Yasutake, who held a position of great importance in the sword-making world during and after the war, modeled after the tachi cherished by Tokugawa Ieyasu and handed down at the Kunozan Toshogu Shrine in Shizuoka Prefecture, which bears the engraved mei "Myojun Denji Sohaya no Tsurugi Utsusu Nari". Myojun refers to Saito Toshikuni, a senior retainer of the Toki clan, the Sengoku daimyo of Mino; as a descendant of Fujiwara no Toshihito, the Chinjufu Shogun of the mid-Heian period, this is due to his having handed down the Sohaya sword that Toshihito received from the Imperial Court as proof of his appointment as a plenipotentiary.
NihontoWatchYasutake靖武
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As written by the shop
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Tokyo · 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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