NihontoWatchAkamatsu Taro Kanehiro (real name: Kimura Kaoru) is a tosho residing in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. Born in Showa 36 (1961). He began sakuto in Showa 56 under his father, Kaneshige, who was a tosho ranked as O-wazamono Sekiwake during the war. He excels at Kiyomaro-utsushi and has achieved numerous awards at Shinsakuto exhibitions. The Kimura family is a lineage that draws from the okakae-kaji of the Sagara family of the Hitoyoshi Domain, and he is the third son of three tosho brothers, with older brothers Kanesugu and Kaneteru. On the kashira, fuchi, tsuba, kurigata, and kojiri fittings decorated with Higo zogan, anuryo fly with their patterns connecting across the fittings, a feat possible only because they are soroimono. This is a Higo koshirae for appreciation; it is a work we truly want you to hold in your hands and see.
NihontoWatchAkamatsu Taro Kanehiro赤松太郎兼裕
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Higo (Yatsushiro) · Heisei-Reiwa
7 pieces on the market now
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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