NihontoWatchHon-zukuri, iori-mune. Ubu-nakago. Ko-itame-hada, mixed with masame, ji-nie appears. Hamon is togari-gunome, mixed with choji. Ko-nie attaches well, kinsuji and sunagashi appear, bright and clear. Good workmanship. Real name is Murayama Shigeaki. Former Army commissioned swordsmith. In a kuro-ro-nuri-saya uchigatana-koshirae.
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Machine translation from the shop's Japanese · may contain errors ·
Mino · 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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