NihontoWatchThe swordsmith Fujiyasu Masahira was born in Date District, Fukushima Prefecture in Showa 21. In Showa 41, he entered the apprenticeship of the late Living National Treasure, Master Miyairi Yukihira, a swordsmith of Sakaki Town, Nagano Prefecture. In Showa 50, he opened a forge in Tatsukoyama, Fukushima Prefecture and became independent. Since then, through repeated research and discipline in sword making, he has received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Excellence Award 3 times, the Encouragement Award 6 times, and the Effort Award 7 times. In Heisei 2, he received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Chairman's Award. In Heisei 14, he received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Kanzan Award. He has performed dedicatory forging at many shrines such as Owari Atsuta Jingu and Nara Gokoku Jinja, and in Heisei 20, he performed a nihonto dedicatory forging at Hitachi Kashima Jingu for the first time in approximately one thousand three hundred years since the sword making of Sabi no Omaro in 704. In the autumn of Showa 59, he also bore the major responsibility of the service for the respectful production of the Goshinho tachi for the 61st Shikinen Sengu of Ise Jingu, and he also exerted great effort in supporting the reconstruction of Okoto Jinja in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, which suffered great damage in the recent earthquake, serving by respectfully producing a chokuto to become a Goshinho; most recently, with the reconstruction forging of the large chokuto excavated from the Miyajidake Kofun in Fukuoka, he possesses sword making techniques that are among the best of contemporary Japanese swordsmiths. Holding a strong desire for the reproduction of koto swords of the Heian and Kamakura periods, he has engaged in research and discipline for many years, and with abundant knowledge and insight into National Treasures, Important Cultural Properties, and similar swords, as well as iron sand and iron culture nationwide, he creates accurate and beautiful sugata regardless of whether he works on tachi, katana, tanto, wakizashi, naginata, or ancient chokuto. The skill of his jigane and yakiba is also vivid, boasting a wide range of production abilities, and his nakago finishing such as nakago-yasuri and meibun is also the best among contemporary swordsmiths; the fact that after the death of his master Yukihira, he took charge of the master's biological son Miyairi Kozaemon Yukihira (Miyairi Kei) and had him undergo sword forging training as a disciple speaks to the deep trust of his master and the high level of his skill. In recent years, he has also worked on the research of Nara period swords such as the chokuto and teboko housed in the Nara Shosoin, and the reproduction production of Yagen Toshiro, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Ichigo Hitofuri, and others. This tachi faithfully copies the elegant koshi-zori tachi sugata of the late Heian period, and is a blade forged using a luxurious amount of Yasukuni tamahagane, which has now become difficult to obtain. It is tempered with a suguha with a bright and clear nioiguchi. As it is mumei-giri, if it is now before registration, it is possible to cut a meibun of your choice. We will deliver it after performing all work including polishing, habaki, and shirasaya. *Because Master Masahira forges with the aim of koto reproduction, he uses forging methods different from other contemporary swordsmiths. For that reason, please place your order based on the understanding that koto-like forging flaws (kizue) will certainly appear somewhere.
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Fukushima · Showa-Reiwa
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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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