Kaji push
By the Kaji push , I revise the curve condition of the sword which terminated quenching, and a swordmaker does barbarity. I perform the last adjustment while checking a close wound and condition with a thing of meat, the figure of the ground blade at this time.
Stem sewing
The stem (a basket) fixes the form with 銑 and a file and can open a rivet of a gun stock hole to use when I have a handle (つか) more than 2 in the case of a sword for 1, quick draws of the sword generally. I add swordmaker original file eyes (a file, safeguard purpose) to this back.
I rake an eaves trough
I put the thing installing an eaves trough (ひ) here.
A groundwork sharpener
I polish metal and a blade crest in a whetstone by the groundwork grind (したじとぎ) mainly.
Signature carving
The swordmaker uses the chisel (a graver) last and cuts a signature to a stem by own name or a place of residence, the production year. It cuts a swordmaker name and a place of residence on a list (when I wore a sword and a sword, plane becoming it outward), and I tend to cut the production year or the owner name on the back, but there is generally the exceptions such as engravings on the reverse side of the sword blade or bearing no signature.
I finish it and polish it
I finish it and polish it and polish metal and a blade crest in (I do it and polish it) and process a mirror side with a polishing stick. "なるめ" processes a hat.
One way of work that a swordmaker performs is over, and I perform the last grind, but it is said from now on by a polisher of swords when I performed the swordmaker oneself abrasion before the Muromachi era. Japanese sword abrasion is to put a sharpener for the whole sword blade without only in the point where the principal objective has that I draw the aesthetic element of the Japanese sword as the industrial art object, blade region while premising the sharpness as the knife for a point doing other knife sharpeners and considerable difference. I will make the sheath which balanced with the sword by Rev. sheath. The Japanese sword is completed by craftsmen such as a polisher of swords and Rev. sheath, a japanner, Rev. lacquer work, Rev. metalworking, the Rev. silver not the thing which only a swordmaker makes for the first time.
11/14/2009
11/10/2009
Temperature management
I put soil
Is for level ground, and, as preparations for "quenching" to suddenly cool the sword blade which heated with water, serve incineration ground soil (tusk soil) of three kinds of (for patterns on the sword blade) 鎬地用 for blade crests in a sword blade; "put soil", and perform を. I apply a thin coat of incineration ground soil of the level ground use to the level ground uniformly and draw incineration ground soil for blade crests on the blade crest with a writing brush. Finally I pile 鎬地用焼場土 with a ridge from a blade crest thick. Baking it does not enter that much so that the blade side is cooled in immediate cold water by the quenching quickly, and entering, the side of the ridge are comparatively slow, and firing gets cold enough by thickening the incineration ground soil of 鎬地. While a capacity expands by firing, I am tense, and the blade side peculiar to a Japanese sword produces the curve that stuck out. The side of the ridge is have little expansion with steel full of tenacity than the hardness and it is firm, but carries a function to be able to support steel of the fragile blade side.
Quenching
The swordsmith darkens the illumination of the workshop at the time of quenching and usually judges temperature of the steel from the light. I put the sword blade which I put it, and did soil in a firebed deeply and heat the whole from the point to the cause to around 800 degrees Celsius evenly. The temperature of the heating is the most important and ascertains the most suitable heating state with extreme caution, and be depressed to a water tank, and immediate cold water does a sword blade at a stretch. The sword blade produces a curve in water according to the said article, and it is raised after enough cooling, and it is polished in a wild whetstone, and a fried blade is confirmed. The sword blade is warmed to blaze of the charcoal, and "fried return" is performed afterwards. This is work to be called "companion" (I meet and take it). I give a blade moderate flexibility by performing "a companion". Because it occurs in the cross direction a little, I use the mallet with the stand of the tree, and the curve revises it. Is なかごも ware; besides fix the form.
By quenching, a very hard organization called martensite appears on the surface of the sword. I call the thing which I see in the shape of the particle that a pattern on the sword blade is round on the surface of the ground iron by the naked eye by how to enter martensite with 錵 (boiled) or 沸 (boiled) and distinguish a small white thing seen linearly from a smell (a smell) without one one particle being distinguished.
It is other cutlery to turn on firing in oil, and, as well as water, there is it, and it has been performed in the sabers in during the second World War in the case of a Japanese sword, but it seems that it is rare that I put firing in a Japanese sword in oil now to be performed (attention:) The definition of the modern Japanese sword which Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology establishes is water ware to the last. ) that a gun and sword method becomes illegal as for the oil-hardening. I suddenly cool it and because there is not it, there is little failure such as the running out of blade, but cut it and have it and do not do it when I turn on firing in oil without it is it with a soft steel organization, and it is good, and can cut it. In addition, I become the smell result entirely. Cut it without can give a clearness in a pattern on the sword blade, and the taste is because I am unsuitable for a sword in the present age to intend an art industrial art object as the other (a sharpness rice cake is sorry not to be able to cut it).
Is for level ground, and, as preparations for "quenching" to suddenly cool the sword blade which heated with water, serve incineration ground soil (tusk soil) of three kinds of (for patterns on the sword blade) 鎬地用 for blade crests in a sword blade; "put soil", and perform を. I apply a thin coat of incineration ground soil of the level ground use to the level ground uniformly and draw incineration ground soil for blade crests on the blade crest with a writing brush. Finally I pile 鎬地用焼場土 with a ridge from a blade crest thick. Baking it does not enter that much so that the blade side is cooled in immediate cold water by the quenching quickly, and entering, the side of the ridge are comparatively slow, and firing gets cold enough by thickening the incineration ground soil of 鎬地. While a capacity expands by firing, I am tense, and the blade side peculiar to a Japanese sword produces the curve that stuck out. The side of the ridge is have little expansion with steel full of tenacity than the hardness and it is firm, but carries a function to be able to support steel of the fragile blade side.
Quenching
The swordsmith darkens the illumination of the workshop at the time of quenching and usually judges temperature of the steel from the light. I put the sword blade which I put it, and did soil in a firebed deeply and heat the whole from the point to the cause to around 800 degrees Celsius evenly. The temperature of the heating is the most important and ascertains the most suitable heating state with extreme caution, and be depressed to a water tank, and immediate cold water does a sword blade at a stretch. The sword blade produces a curve in water according to the said article, and it is raised after enough cooling, and it is polished in a wild whetstone, and a fried blade is confirmed. The sword blade is warmed to blaze of the charcoal, and "fried return" is performed afterwards. This is work to be called "companion" (I meet and take it). I give a blade moderate flexibility by performing "a companion". Because it occurs in the cross direction a little, I use the mallet with the stand of the tree, and the curve revises it. Is なかごも ware; besides fix the form.
By quenching, a very hard organization called martensite appears on the surface of the sword. I call the thing which I see in the shape of the particle that a pattern on the sword blade is round on the surface of the ground iron by the naked eye by how to enter martensite with 錵 (boiled) or 沸 (boiled) and distinguish a small white thing seen linearly from a smell (a smell) without one one particle being distinguished.
It is other cutlery to turn on firing in oil, and, as well as water, there is it, and it has been performed in the sabers in during the second World War in the case of a Japanese sword, but it seems that it is rare that I put firing in a Japanese sword in oil now to be performed (attention:) The definition of the modern Japanese sword which Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology establishes is water ware to the last. ) that a gun and sword method becomes illegal as for the oil-hardening. I suddenly cool it and because there is not it, there is little failure such as the running out of blade, but cut it and have it and do not do it when I turn on firing in oil without it is it with a soft steel organization, and it is good, and can cut it. In addition, I become the smell result entirely. Cut it without can give a clearness in a pattern on the sword blade, and the taste is because I am unsuitable for a sword in the present age to intend an art industrial art object as the other (a sharpness rice cake is sorry not to be able to cut it).
11/07/2009
The manufacturing method of the Japanese sword 2
Training（I train the top)
Around 12 times lapels are performed for 15 times, the money of side for the money of blade for money of ridge with a mandrel nine times seven times. I send impurities such as the sulfur and unnecessary carbon, nonmetal inter. by repeating training while breaking the steel which I swat it and postponed back and am finished to the steel that I am homogeneous and am tough to amount to several thousand levels.
Forge welding and 沸延 べ
I forge three pieces of books elsewhere to watch constitution of the steel of the Japanese sword and each department name (I train a section, Yomo filling) 造込 and I roll it up and forge it, and there are former lying down discipline, innocence discipline. I hit it so as forge welding does money of ridge, mandrel, three levels of the money of blade, and to be able to take thickness 20mm, 40mm in width, materials 4 of around 90mm in length and grow it and separate it to 4 after I excite lower discipline and the second product, and a mandrel, money of ridge, money of blade, steel of four kinds of the money of side were provided by upper discipline. This is called "money of core". I swat it so that it is heated, and length increases twice as much as the money of core, and it is grown, and the side money is separated by the center, and two money of side of the length same as money of core is made.
（Watch 造込 of the Yomo filling discipline; appearing,）It is repeated by side money, money of core, the order of the side money, and I excite it, and it is done forge welding, and I hit it to thickness 15mm, 30mm in width, around 500-600mm in length, and it is grown. "A lever" is separated, and "stem" (a basket) becoming the grip part of the sword is excited, and it is done forge welding.
Bare total of
I perform "bare total of" (すのべ) to beat in the form of the sword and I cut off the tip and make an expired point. I fix the duster form in a mallet carefully to decide the completion form of the Japanese sword that a figure here is last.
Fire polishing
I knock on the ridge of the sword blade to become the triangle and I swat the side (level ground) of the blade to become thin and postpone it. I knock on the ridge of the stem and round off and I swat "鎬地" (しのぎち) last and fix the figure. I heat the whole sword blade to azuki color low and do 除冷.
I tighten the sky
I swat sharpener last joke, level ground and 鎬地 in a mallet in a wild whetstone and cold-work a surface black dirt after getting cold. Revise a ridge and the straight line of the blade; and a harpoon (do not do it)： I sharpen unevenness with the large-sized pushed by hand plane which seems to be a Rino Oshikiri blade sharpening the iron which is called) with 銑. "Length of a blade" and "ward" (I wait) are decided at this stage.
A straight sharpener
I perform "straight sharpener" (なまとぎ) that a sharpener drops the scrape of the plane in a whetstone. I drop oils and fats in a straw ash including the water and dry it afterwards.
Around 12 times lapels are performed for 15 times, the money of side for the money of blade for money of ridge with a mandrel nine times seven times. I send impurities such as the sulfur and unnecessary carbon, nonmetal inter. by repeating training while breaking the steel which I swat it and postponed back and am finished to the steel that I am homogeneous and am tough to amount to several thousand levels.
Forge welding and 沸延 べ
I forge three pieces of books elsewhere to watch constitution of the steel of the Japanese sword and each department name (I train a section, Yomo filling) 造込 and I roll it up and forge it, and there are former lying down discipline, innocence discipline. I hit it so as forge welding does money of ridge, mandrel, three levels of the money of blade, and to be able to take thickness 20mm, 40mm in width, materials 4 of around 90mm in length and grow it and separate it to 4 after I excite lower discipline and the second product, and a mandrel, money of ridge, money of blade, steel of four kinds of the money of side were provided by upper discipline. This is called "money of core". I swat it so that it is heated, and length increases twice as much as the money of core, and it is grown, and the side money is separated by the center, and two money of side of the length same as money of core is made.
（Watch 造込 of the Yomo filling discipline; appearing,）It is repeated by side money, money of core, the order of the side money, and I excite it, and it is done forge welding, and I hit it to thickness 15mm, 30mm in width, around 500-600mm in length, and it is grown. "A lever" is separated, and "stem" (a basket) becoming the grip part of the sword is excited, and it is done forge welding.
Bare total of
I perform "bare total of" (すのべ) to beat in the form of the sword and I cut off the tip and make an expired point. I fix the duster form in a mallet carefully to decide the completion form of the Japanese sword that a figure here is last.
Fire polishing
I knock on the ridge of the sword blade to become the triangle and I swat the side (level ground) of the blade to become thin and postpone it. I knock on the ridge of the stem and round off and I swat "鎬地" (しのぎち) last and fix the figure. I heat the whole sword blade to azuki color low and do 除冷.
I tighten the sky
I swat sharpener last joke, level ground and 鎬地 in a mallet in a wild whetstone and cold-work a surface black dirt after getting cold. Revise a ridge and the straight line of the blade; and a harpoon (do not do it)： I sharpen unevenness with the large-sized pushed by hand plane which seems to be a Rino Oshikiri blade sharpening the iron which is called) with 銑. "Length of a blade" and "ward" (I wait) are decided at this stage.
A straight sharpener
I perform "straight sharpener" (なまとぎ) that a sharpener drops the scrape of the plane in a whetstone. I drop oils and fats in a straw ash including the water and dry it afterwards.
11/04/2009
The manufacturing method of the Japanese sword
Very high technology is gathered in the manufacturing method of the Japanese sword to realize 3 elements said to be able to "cut it well without turning without compromising" in a very high dimension at the same time. I write below down the outline.
Making of the high quality steel
Carburizing the melted iron sand in a furnace with a foot bellows
I call steel becoming the materials of the Japanese sword sum steel (it will be heated) or ball steel (a Tama steel). The ball steel is made with "the carburizing the melted iron sand in a furnace with a foot bellows" that is the Japanese original steel manufacture method. I can get high quality steel I realize high speed reduction at low temperature unlike the steel manufacture method to assume the iron ore of many foreign countries raw materials by using iron sand for raw materials, and I compare it with the steel manufacture method that, besides, is modern, and to use little iron sand of impurities as raw materials.
I reduce water
I beat the ball steel which I heated with a mallet (soil) and make a thin flat board. When I put this in water, and immediate cold water passes, exfoliation is scattered the part which unnecessary carbon enters. I say (I pass without looking and do it) "water reduces" this or and I "push the water". It is the making of metal which here passes, and it does it, and is called work.
I excite the product
The lump which I turn on this firing and hardened is called (へしがね) and I swat it and crush it with a mallet to a small piece of iron. I divide it into much hard iron and little soft iron of the carbon minute from the piece and I pile up these pieces of iron on the point of the tool of the training use to be called "a lever" separately and wrap it with a Japanese paper. I add a straw ash to circumference, and, furthermore, I can write clay juice, and a firebed enter, and surface clay heats can dissolve it. A straw ash and silicic acid of the clay melt to glass by heating and cover the surface of the adhesion side of the steel and prevent what firing of the steel decreases by obstructing the oxidation film (iron oxide (II)) formation of the iron and does. ※The prevention of oxidation film by the silicic acid which melted is used for arrival at pressure of the steel in the case of later forge welding using a similar phenomenon. I swat it in a mallet and strengthen it to around 6*9cm. If a piece of iron is not enough, I pile it up more and heat and swat it in a mallet and mold it and do it to quantity of around 1.8-2.0kg of the indispensability. The above "excites the product", and it is a の process. The malleable iron called pig iron and kitchen knife iron with much quantity of carbon besides ball steel excites the product and works on the next bottom discipline.
Training（I train a bottom）
I repeat "lapel training" I can enter, and to fold a fold centrally when I swat it and thin the block which became red-hot with a mallet (soil) in length and breadth direction and perform it. By the way, I became the etymology of the words "that "the sledge hammersmith" that a swordsmith (a front seat) and a pupil (the first move) beat the sword blade with a mallet in turn chimed in" on. Around five or six times lapels are performed at this stage.
Making of the high quality steel
Carburizing the melted iron sand in a furnace with a foot bellows
I call steel becoming the materials of the Japanese sword sum steel (it will be heated) or ball steel (a Tama steel). The ball steel is made with "the carburizing the melted iron sand in a furnace with a foot bellows" that is the Japanese original steel manufacture method. I can get high quality steel I realize high speed reduction at low temperature unlike the steel manufacture method to assume the iron ore of many foreign countries raw materials by using iron sand for raw materials, and I compare it with the steel manufacture method that, besides, is modern, and to use little iron sand of impurities as raw materials.
I reduce water
I beat the ball steel which I heated with a mallet (soil) and make a thin flat board. When I put this in water, and immediate cold water passes, exfoliation is scattered the part which unnecessary carbon enters. I say (I pass without looking and do it) "water reduces" this or and I "push the water". It is the making of metal which here passes, and it does it, and is called work.
I excite the product
The lump which I turn on this firing and hardened is called (へしがね) and I swat it and crush it with a mallet to a small piece of iron. I divide it into much hard iron and little soft iron of the carbon minute from the piece and I pile up these pieces of iron on the point of the tool of the training use to be called "a lever" separately and wrap it with a Japanese paper. I add a straw ash to circumference, and, furthermore, I can write clay juice, and a firebed enter, and surface clay heats can dissolve it. A straw ash and silicic acid of the clay melt to glass by heating and cover the surface of the adhesion side of the steel and prevent what firing of the steel decreases by obstructing the oxidation film (iron oxide (II)) formation of the iron and does. ※The prevention of oxidation film by the silicic acid which melted is used for arrival at pressure of the steel in the case of later forge welding using a similar phenomenon. I swat it in a mallet and strengthen it to around 6*9cm. If a piece of iron is not enough, I pile it up more and heat and swat it in a mallet and mold it and do it to quantity of around 1.8-2.0kg of the indispensability. The above "excites the product", and it is a の process. The malleable iron called pig iron and kitchen knife iron with much quantity of carbon besides ball steel excites the product and works on the next bottom discipline.
Training（I train a bottom）
I repeat "lapel training" I can enter, and to fold a fold centrally when I swat it and thin the block which became red-hot with a mallet (soil) in length and breadth direction and perform it. By the way, I became the etymology of the words "that "the sledge hammersmith" that a swordsmith (a front seat) and a pupil (the first move) beat the sword blade with a mallet in turn chimed in" on. Around five or six times lapels are performed at this stage.
11/02/2009
After World War II
Iaido
After Pacific Wars (Greater East Asia War) surrender, sword hunting was performed by the alliance nation's armed forces Commander in chief general headquarters which considered a Japanese sword to be a weapon, and the many swords which did it including the firefly-maru suffered abandonment / the scatter (like Kumamoto, there is the example dumped among the back seas which I take oil, and was burnt). In addition, the rumor that "GHQ comes when there is a sword to look for it with a metal detector" flies and conceals it in the under the ground and I let, as a result, a sword die and spoil it and I break it so that it is it in lower than length of the break-even point and do it with a knife, and, as for the example which devalued and I bring it in in the blacksmith's to be able to use it for everyday life and remodel it into a hatchet and a sickle, the knife which, in addition, is for it every day Japanese sword, there is not time for counting up. Many of swords which I forfeited in GHQ were kept by the warehouse of the United States Armed Forces which there was in Akabane, and it was returned to the Japanese Government with cancellation of the occupation. However, because most of the original owners are missing, the proprietary rights move to the government, and these swords are called "Akabane sword" among sword lovers.
The continuation of the Japanese sword itself was anxious about at one time, but, by a desperate effort of the Japanese side, possession by the registration system was enabled. Registration is obliged Japanese sword in itself to, and it is necessary for the sword that registration is not accomplished to catch the back examination that I reported to the police. Take a limit by the gun and sword method about the possession, but the permission is not necessary about the possession, and is all possibility; (there is the place regulating sale to less than 18 years old by the regulations). In addition, in the case of the purchase, a report of name change to each metropolis and districts Board of Education of registration document mention is necessary.
The Japanese sword is not a weapon, and it is an excellent work of art which is equal with a tool for the martial arts such as a quick draw of the sword / the unsheathed sword, a picture and ceramics, and production / possession is recognized only in the purpose today. Currently, I assume it an original weapon, and there is not appearing, and value as the work of art is high. Value as the work of art is high, and the Japanese sword is appointed to a national treasure, important cultural property, an important art object in a world sword. By Japanese sword original training, appreciate various sword figures, a pattern on the sword blade, a hat, stem form, a signature; is, so to speak, a work of art of the iron. Value as the work of art does not understand the characteristic well. The history of the appreciation of the Japanese sword is old, and there is the history more than 1000 years. In fact, as for the Japanese sword called a celebrated sword, as for the thing used as a weapon, it is really rare and the perfect gem of the Japanese sword and the thing said to pass through time more than it in 1000 and stay in healthy form. About the modern sword, I decide an allotment of the number that I may produce per swordsmith in a year and prevent a fall of the quality of the work by 粗製濫造. However, on the other hand, because there is few making a sword demand as for many swordsmiths although it is natural only by a main profession (a swordsmith), life is difficult, and still there is the above-mentioned number limit, and it may be said that there are many numbers and is cheap and makes it for a martial artist and makes money by just that much, and no sword inscribed with the maker's name must understand that I hold many problems as well as the craftsman of other folkcrafts except some swordsmiths without it being possible for a making a sword because there is not it. Both such situation and the modern swordsmith convey the making a sword of the Japanese sword as the work of art in various form in the present age.
After Pacific Wars (Greater East Asia War) surrender, sword hunting was performed by the alliance nation's armed forces Commander in chief general headquarters which considered a Japanese sword to be a weapon, and the many swords which did it including the firefly-maru suffered abandonment / the scatter (like Kumamoto, there is the example dumped among the back seas which I take oil, and was burnt). In addition, the rumor that "GHQ comes when there is a sword to look for it with a metal detector" flies and conceals it in the under the ground and I let, as a result, a sword die and spoil it and I break it so that it is it in lower than length of the break-even point and do it with a knife, and, as for the example which devalued and I bring it in in the blacksmith's to be able to use it for everyday life and remodel it into a hatchet and a sickle, the knife which, in addition, is for it every day Japanese sword, there is not time for counting up. Many of swords which I forfeited in GHQ were kept by the warehouse of the United States Armed Forces which there was in Akabane, and it was returned to the Japanese Government with cancellation of the occupation. However, because most of the original owners are missing, the proprietary rights move to the government, and these swords are called "Akabane sword" among sword lovers.
The continuation of the Japanese sword itself was anxious about at one time, but, by a desperate effort of the Japanese side, possession by the registration system was enabled. Registration is obliged Japanese sword in itself to, and it is necessary for the sword that registration is not accomplished to catch the back examination that I reported to the police. Take a limit by the gun and sword method about the possession, but the permission is not necessary about the possession, and is all possibility; (there is the place regulating sale to less than 18 years old by the regulations). In addition, in the case of the purchase, a report of name change to each metropolis and districts Board of Education of registration document mention is necessary.
The Japanese sword is not a weapon, and it is an excellent work of art which is equal with a tool for the martial arts such as a quick draw of the sword / the unsheathed sword, a picture and ceramics, and production / possession is recognized only in the purpose today. Currently, I assume it an original weapon, and there is not appearing, and value as the work of art is high. Value as the work of art is high, and the Japanese sword is appointed to a national treasure, important cultural property, an important art object in a world sword. By Japanese sword original training, appreciate various sword figures, a pattern on the sword blade, a hat, stem form, a signature; is, so to speak, a work of art of the iron. Value as the work of art does not understand the characteristic well. The history of the appreciation of the Japanese sword is old, and there is the history more than 1000 years. In fact, as for the Japanese sword called a celebrated sword, as for the thing used as a weapon, it is really rare and the perfect gem of the Japanese sword and the thing said to pass through time more than it in 1000 and stay in healthy form. About the modern sword, I decide an allotment of the number that I may produce per swordsmith in a year and prevent a fall of the quality of the work by 粗製濫造. However, on the other hand, because there is few making a sword demand as for many swordsmiths although it is natural only by a main profession (a swordsmith), life is difficult, and still there is the above-mentioned number limit, and it may be said that there are many numbers and is cheap and makes it for a martial artist and makes money by just that much, and no sword inscribed with the maker's name must understand that I hold many problems as well as the craftsman of other folkcrafts except some swordsmiths without it being possible for a making a sword because there is not it. Both such situation and the modern swordsmith convey the making a sword of the Japanese sword as the work of art in various form in the present age.
11/01/2009
It is World War II from Meiji
In 95 sets of saber 1873, I exhibit a Japanese sword at an open international exposition in Vienna. I showed Japanese technology and mind in the global community. However, as for the demand for new sword, many swordsmiths who played an active part lost a job without most after Law banning private possession of swords in those days. In addition, many celebrated swords began to flow abroad. The government still appoints Sadakazu Gassan, two people of Kanenori Miyamoto as a court artist. I tried for a save of traditional making a sword technology.
On the other hand, Japanese army and navy continued adopting a saber as a main weapon of the officers, and it became common to teach the saber attire of the saber style a Japanese sword, and, besides, the effectiveness of the Japanese sword as the weapon of the round was confirmed by a hand-to-hand fight in the Russo-Japanese War in modern times, and, from evaluation to the advance troop with drawn swords in the Southwestern Rebellion, suitable saber attire was developed by army and navy putting the Japanese sword which assumed the sword attire in the Kamakura era a motif in substitution for the saber attire of the saber style together in the Showa again because feeling of the entering ultranationalism rose (it was it that, however, the many swords of the ancient and modern times when I took the field as a saber at the same time were lost at the battle front).
After Manchurian Incident, the armed forces arms factory and the researcher of some each engines pursued possibility as the equipment of the soldier in not only the attire but also the sword blade. For example, the Japanese swords (a rusted sword "@-resistant) of the stainless steel which a Toshitake sword" corresponding to the intense cold of Manchurian and the navy used various sabers were studied. From the thing which changed one part of the materials / the manufacturing methods of the Japanese sword to the industrial sword which imitated a form of the Japanese sword, various sword blades produced it experimentally, and it was mass-produced. These the special sabers body is referred to "Showa sword" "Shinmura taxpaying farmer" "new Japanese swords", and it is said that there were many things superior to in nature as the weapon depending on a thing than the conventional Japanese sword (even if it is a sword called a celebrated sword commonly). The popular view which was goods of poor quality is still deep-rooted, but these are not the evaluation that is proper except a part with the bad swords which the corrupt supplier sold to the last (goods of poor quality are seen in the early days and last years). The sword blade made in casting theory, an arms factory reaches goods of poor quality theory and is outrageous. I was cheap for an officer warrant officer (the saber beginning combat uniform products were the own expense purchase as private properties), and it was useful as a sword blade usable without regret these, and it was provided the rank and file as an article supplied by the government saber (95 sets of sabers), and it was cast the actual fighting into large quantities.
Although it was it with the Japanese sword that was taken in modern technology as for each the special sabers body at the point of view called the original "Japanese sword as the weapon of the fight", and was completed, and was mastered in the important utility;, as for the aesthetic element of the appearance, there is no it; (there is the thing which had both sides like a half training Showa sword of Seki) is not included in the category of the Japanese sword a lot of things today from the top of the manufacturing method either; is done a thing. However, it is these days and becomes popular to these sabers which were not looked at so far in the sword world, and the voices of the reevaluation such as the new discovery of a student and the collector or the negation of the partial popular view rise at the same time.
On the other hand, Japanese army and navy continued adopting a saber as a main weapon of the officers, and it became common to teach the saber attire of the saber style a Japanese sword, and, besides, the effectiveness of the Japanese sword as the weapon of the round was confirmed by a hand-to-hand fight in the Russo-Japanese War in modern times, and, from evaluation to the advance troop with drawn swords in the Southwestern Rebellion, suitable saber attire was developed by army and navy putting the Japanese sword which assumed the sword attire in the Kamakura era a motif in substitution for the saber attire of the saber style together in the Showa again because feeling of the entering ultranationalism rose (it was it that, however, the many swords of the ancient and modern times when I took the field as a saber at the same time were lost at the battle front).
After Manchurian Incident, the armed forces arms factory and the researcher of some each engines pursued possibility as the equipment of the soldier in not only the attire but also the sword blade. For example, the Japanese swords (a rusted sword "@-resistant) of the stainless steel which a Toshitake sword" corresponding to the intense cold of Manchurian and the navy used various sabers were studied. From the thing which changed one part of the materials / the manufacturing methods of the Japanese sword to the industrial sword which imitated a form of the Japanese sword, various sword blades produced it experimentally, and it was mass-produced. These the special sabers body is referred to "Showa sword" "Shinmura taxpaying farmer" "new Japanese swords", and it is said that there were many things superior to in nature as the weapon depending on a thing than the conventional Japanese sword (even if it is a sword called a celebrated sword commonly). The popular view which was goods of poor quality is still deep-rooted, but these are not the evaluation that is proper except a part with the bad swords which the corrupt supplier sold to the last (goods of poor quality are seen in the early days and last years). The sword blade made in casting theory, an arms factory reaches goods of poor quality theory and is outrageous. I was cheap for an officer warrant officer (the saber beginning combat uniform products were the own expense purchase as private properties), and it was useful as a sword blade usable without regret these, and it was provided the rank and file as an article supplied by the government saber (95 sets of sabers), and it was cast the actual fighting into large quantities.
Although it was it with the Japanese sword that was taken in modern technology as for each the special sabers body at the point of view called the original "Japanese sword as the weapon of the fight", and was completed, and was mastered in the important utility;, as for the aesthetic element of the appearance, there is no it; (there is the thing which had both sides like a half training Showa sword of Seki) is not included in the category of the Japanese sword a lot of things today from the top of the manufacturing method either; is done a thing. However, it is these days and becomes popular to these sabers which were not looked at so far in the sword world, and the voices of the reevaluation such as the new discovery of a student and the collector or the negation of the partial popular view rise at the same time.
10/31/2009
Late Tokugawa period stour
Earlier period of Yasunaga of the short sword (Tokyo National Museum possession) black ship visit to a shore previous night of Edo period. The decline of the samurai family became remarkable, and, by repeated famine without waiting for a black ship visit to a shore, the enlargement of the merchant by the rise of the money society, people have begun to feel the wind of the social change in consciousness / unconsciousness. I entered from the Dewa country Edo in such times, and the thing which polished 鍛刀技術 appeared. It is Kawabe matter Hachiro Masahide Fujiwara who changed a signature to Masahide in Yasunaga 3, the appearance of Masahide Suishinshi (すいしんしまさひで) who is that is to say called the father of the new sword. I sort the times to the Meiji Restoration with "a new sword" than this. Because beautiful iron came to be mass-produced for a characteristic by further progress of the iron manufacture technology, ground iron is plain, and there is the thing that I see it. The Hiroshi iron refinement technology was taken in in the latter period, too, and place of plain wind iron was made. There are many things which a smell mouth is rambling, and do it from a change of the ground iron and a fall of the quenching technology generally. In addition, the sword which gave skin forcibly and a copying thing of Kosaku appear with color iron as if I retrogress. The figure is various in each country, but it is it that I am accompanied by width of the body widely expired last growth, the curve generally.
With a book called "the maiden sword dialect doubt", 沸匂深 was in the condition of the celebrated sword, and, in early period of new sword, a samurai called Gyomyo Kamada insisted on a product and applauded Shinkai Inoue of the Osaka maiden sword, Tsuda Sukehiro. Therefore it was prevalent to bake splendid 涛瀾乱 れを which first-term Tsuda Sukehiro founded in the days of Edo in early period of new sword. However, the ground iron is weak with having no pattern key when I compare it with a core course, and the blade is high so as to suffer from 鎬, and there are much firing and products which I smell it, and is accompanied by 斑沸 with the result without vast cracking down on. Masahide who felt that it was far had doubt towards the opinion of Gyomyo Kamada with the practical use sword, and the restoration of the practical use sword that is to say advocated the restoration to the sword in the Kamakura era / the north and south Imperial Court times. It sounded with the social conditions that loyalty to the Emperor thought of the next was becoming popular, and this restoration movement interchanged with Kaji of each place (I became a pupil in order to learn Sagami biography, the hidden ritual of the Bizen biography) and brought up a large number of pupils at the same time. Though try ground iron manufacture for Kamakura / the north and south Imperial Court period which concentrate various devices, and wholesale iron aims for; did not need to arrive. This is similar today.
The pupil of Masahide is scattered to each place nationwide, and it may be said that the thing which is not affected by Masahide is nil among swordmakers of the new sword period literally. Great happiness direct paternal blood, Masayoshi Hosokawa, Kato rope Shun were to a well-known pupil and, like each Masahide, brought up many disciples.
A prodigy is born in Shinshu while a Masahide school plays an active part. I learn a making a sword from 河村寿隆 of Ozaki school descending from the Osaka maiden sword at the beginning, and it is found talent to Edo by Sugane Kubota whom it is from, a shogun's retainer, and was a person of military science in order to attend and makes copying of the Old celebrated sword of each house transmission. He is Kiyomaro Minamoto who became a swordmaker representing Edo period. There is a problem in the private life and retires from the world to Choshu and drinks large quantities of liquor without doing 鍛刀, and then 著名刀工固山宗次 and the episode that I drink it and compare it, and performed a battle are famous. Kiyomaro Minamoto undergoes a change of the first signature with limit / "round" / "Masayuki" / "清麿" with "Hideju". Because I lived in Yotsuya, I have the nickname of "the Yotsuya sword Masamune". Because they make copying to see the goods of Kosaku and improved their skill, a figure, the result are different from the reproduction of the Masahide school very much. I was in particular good at reversed character copying, Kaneuji Shizu copying. The ground iron attracts a line with the other new mechanic, too, and I forge it, and skin is powerful beautifully. In addition, the fried blade contains an officer of the old Japanese armed forces flourishingly like Kosaku. However, I left a large amount of debt (鍛刀, money of reputation) and committed suicide at 42 years old. A pupil has Nobuhide Kurihara, Kiyoto Fujiwara, Masao Suzuki. Kiyoto Fujiwara and Nobuhide Kurihara undertake 鍛刀 of a left promise after a teacher committed suicide and have the anecdote that gave back a debt.
There is a surprise attack case out of Sakurada-mon Gate where long-nosed goblin party case by the Mito loyalty to the Emperor group, Naosuke Ii were assassinated, and adherence to the shogunate group and loyalty to the Emperor group are mixed and confused in the countries, and struggle comes to be performed. To times environment, the samurais liking the demand for few knives, a tall and stout sword of the number of the making a swords increase after the Edo early days and a making a sword began prosperity again and invites the Meiji Restoration. Revenge was prohibited to (1873) in 1873, and the Japanese sword has declined rapidly because Law banning private possession of swords to prohibit a swordswoman (1876) other than a police officer / an officer on March 28 in 1876 was started.
With a book called "the maiden sword dialect doubt", 沸匂深 was in the condition of the celebrated sword, and, in early period of new sword, a samurai called Gyomyo Kamada insisted on a product and applauded Shinkai Inoue of the Osaka maiden sword, Tsuda Sukehiro. Therefore it was prevalent to bake splendid 涛瀾乱 れを which first-term Tsuda Sukehiro founded in the days of Edo in early period of new sword. However, the ground iron is weak with having no pattern key when I compare it with a core course, and the blade is high so as to suffer from 鎬, and there are much firing and products which I smell it, and is accompanied by 斑沸 with the result without vast cracking down on. Masahide who felt that it was far had doubt towards the opinion of Gyomyo Kamada with the practical use sword, and the restoration of the practical use sword that is to say advocated the restoration to the sword in the Kamakura era / the north and south Imperial Court times. It sounded with the social conditions that loyalty to the Emperor thought of the next was becoming popular, and this restoration movement interchanged with Kaji of each place (I became a pupil in order to learn Sagami biography, the hidden ritual of the Bizen biography) and brought up a large number of pupils at the same time. Though try ground iron manufacture for Kamakura / the north and south Imperial Court period which concentrate various devices, and wholesale iron aims for; did not need to arrive. This is similar today.
The pupil of Masahide is scattered to each place nationwide, and it may be said that the thing which is not affected by Masahide is nil among swordmakers of the new sword period literally. Great happiness direct paternal blood, Masayoshi Hosokawa, Kato rope Shun were to a well-known pupil and, like each Masahide, brought up many disciples.
A prodigy is born in Shinshu while a Masahide school plays an active part. I learn a making a sword from 河村寿隆 of Ozaki school descending from the Osaka maiden sword at the beginning, and it is found talent to Edo by Sugane Kubota whom it is from, a shogun's retainer, and was a person of military science in order to attend and makes copying of the Old celebrated sword of each house transmission. He is Kiyomaro Minamoto who became a swordmaker representing Edo period. There is a problem in the private life and retires from the world to Choshu and drinks large quantities of liquor without doing 鍛刀, and then 著名刀工固山宗次 and the episode that I drink it and compare it, and performed a battle are famous. Kiyomaro Minamoto undergoes a change of the first signature with limit / "round" / "Masayuki" / "清麿" with "Hideju". Because I lived in Yotsuya, I have the nickname of "the Yotsuya sword Masamune". Because they make copying to see the goods of Kosaku and improved their skill, a figure, the result are different from the reproduction of the Masahide school very much. I was in particular good at reversed character copying, Kaneuji Shizu copying. The ground iron attracts a line with the other new mechanic, too, and I forge it, and skin is powerful beautifully. In addition, the fried blade contains an officer of the old Japanese armed forces flourishingly like Kosaku. However, I left a large amount of debt (鍛刀, money of reputation) and committed suicide at 42 years old. A pupil has Nobuhide Kurihara, Kiyoto Fujiwara, Masao Suzuki. Kiyoto Fujiwara and Nobuhide Kurihara undertake 鍛刀 of a left promise after a teacher committed suicide and have the anecdote that gave back a debt.
There is a surprise attack case out of Sakurada-mon Gate where long-nosed goblin party case by the Mito loyalty to the Emperor group, Naosuke Ii were assassinated, and adherence to the shogunate group and loyalty to the Emperor group are mixed and confused in the countries, and struggle comes to be performed. To times environment, the samurais liking the demand for few knives, a tall and stout sword of the number of the making a swords increase after the Edo early days and a making a sword began prosperity again and invites the Meiji Restoration. Revenge was prohibited to (1873) in 1873, and the Japanese sword has declined rapidly because Law banning private possession of swords to prohibit a swordswoman (1876) other than a police officer / an officer on March 28 in 1876 was started.
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