NihontoWatchSwordsmith Fujiyasu Masahira was born in Date-gun, Fukushima Prefecture in Showa 21. In Showa 41, he entered apprenticeship under the late Living National Treasure, the swordsmith Miyairi Yukihira of Sakaki-machi, Nagano Prefecture. In Showa 50, he established a forge in Tatsuko-yama, Fukushima Prefecture and became independent. Since then, through repeated research and discipline in sword making, he has received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Yusho 3 times, Shoreisho 6 times, and Doryokusho 7 times. In Heisei 2, he received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Kaicho-sho. In Heisei 14, he received the Nippon Bijutsu Token Hozon Kyokai Kanzan-sho. He has performed dedication forging at many shrines such as Owari Atsuta Jingu and Nara Gokoku Jinja, and in Heisei 20, he performed a nihonto dedication 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 great responsibility of serving in the respectful production of the Goshinpō tachi for the 61st Shikinen Sengu of Ise Jingu, and he exerted great effort in supporting the reconstruction of Okoto Jinja in Minamisoma, Fukushima, which suffered great damage in the recent earthquake, by respectfully serving in the production of a chokuto to become a Goshinpō; most recently, through the reconstruction forging of the great chokuto excavated from the Miyajidake Kofun in Fukuoka, he possesses sword making techniques 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 regarding Kokuho, Juyo Bunkazai, and similar swords, as well as iron sand and iron culture across the country, he creates accurate and beautiful sugata whether he works on tachi, katana, tanto, wakizashi, naginata, or ancient chokuto. The skill of his jitetsu and yakiba is also vivid, boasting a wide range of production abilities, and his nakago-shitate such as nakago-yasuri and meibun is 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 his high level of skill. In recent years, he has also engaged in research on swords of the Nara period such as the chokuto and teboko housed in the Nara Shosoin, and the reconstruction production of Yagen Toshiro, Tsurumaru Kuninaga, Ichigo Hitofuri, and others. This wakizashi was forged in Reiwa 1 to match a koshirae from an old period. The difference between the moto-haba and saki-haba opens elegantly, and the kissaki is slightly extended. The jitetsu of ko-itame hada with masame-nagare is slightly hadadatsu with chikei, the hamon has a bright and clear nioiguchi, tempered in notare style with gunome, mixed with choji, with ashi and yo entering frequently, becoming notare-komi around the yokote, and the saki is sugu with a maru kaeri. Being the work of the swordsmith Masahira who aims for koto reproduction, the quality of the ji and ha is a workmanship that does not look like a gendaito. It is truly a sword worthy of being a treasured sword or a family heirloom. The accompanying koshirae is, as previously mentioned, a period piece from the Edo period, and the kozuka-bukuro with a design of a tiger in bamboo is fitted not with the single-edged kogatana commonly seen, but with a somewhat unusual moroha ken-shaped point.
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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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