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.