O-NOTARE O-MIDARE BA. SUNAGASHI with defined KINSUJI and INAZUMA. Profuse NIE with NIOI-FUKASHI. Can be wide YAKI-HABA. MIDARE BOSHI or ICHIMAE.

^Note: School style changed as NAMBOKUCHO smiths hop-scotched the HOKURIKUDO. Influences to ECHIZEN, ECHIGO, KAGA and MINO. The HOKURIKU Provinces in the MUROMACHI became interwoven with MINO. In time we hear, "ECHIZEN-SEKI" & "KAGA-SEKI," the SENGOKU.

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ETCHU NORISHIGE                            MATSUKURA GO YOSHIHIRO
____|____                                      "The Ten Students"
YOSHIHIRO GEN-O 1319 SAGAMI KEM-MU 1334   "Best Student" MASAMUNE
    |_______________________________ ___________________
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YOSHIZANE(1) EN-GEN 1336   MINO TAMETSUGU    ECHIGO NORISHIGE 
____|____                     EN-BUN 1356         TEI-JI 1362
YOSHIZANE(2) SHI-TOKU 1384                    

GO YOSHIHIRO GEN-O (f: NORISHIGE): GO-UMA-no-SUKE. "GO" is his
        short name, always piped with the greatest affection by
        the greatest of experts. Born: 1299, Died: 1325. 
        MATSUKURA JU. Reputed as "The Best Student," he has been
        the focus of scholarly pursuit for six hundred years. The
        intriguing legend of "The Ten Students" may have twisted
        study such that independent men were assigned posthumous
        rolls not of their own creating. There are claims that 
        there are no known SOSHU-style YOSHIHIRO swords. Blades 
        known to be his are in YAMATO-style. Blades said to be 
        his are seen in two styles, YAMASHIRO where KO-ITAME is 
        the definer, and YAMATO, where MASAME is found. It is 
        safe to call YOSHIHIROa lover of YAMATO. Attributed 
        blades are found, narrow with KO-KISSAKI, old style, 
        medium with CHU-KISSAKI or NAMBOKUCHO, wide with 
        O-KISSAKI. IHORI-MUNE that is steeply ridged. 
        Extraordinarily fine-textured ITAME or running ITAME with
        MASAME that shows refined JI-NIE and CHIKEI. Steel is 
        clear and bright. HAMON patterns maybe a rolling NOTARE-
        MIDARE mixed with GUNOME-MIDARE of wide and relatively 
        even height. Pattern may widen or elongate in the 
        MONOUCHI. ASHI falls from the line.SUNAGASHI with INAZUMA
        and long KINSUJI add depth. There is HOTSURE. The HABUCHI
        is NIOI-FUKASHI and KO-NIE. Some swords are CHU-SUGUHA 
        with ASHI and YO. 
        BOSHI can be MIDARE with ICHIMONJI-KAERI but ICHI-MAE
        BOSHI (fully tempered head) is the expected GO BOSHI. 
        FUKASHI-KAERI. 
    MEI: YOSHIHIRO
         ETCHU-no-KUNI YOSHIHIRO
         MATSUKURA-GO JU YOSHIHIRO

SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE O-SURIAGE TACHI SUGATA has a gentle SORI to an elongated CHU-KISSAKI. BO-HI ends HI SAKI-SAGARU or below the KISAAKI.

Wet KO-ITAME, with CHIKEI, is dressed in the finest KO JI-NIE.

Luminous NIOI-GUCHI creates a particularly serene CHU-SUGU ASAKAI-NOTARE that holds GUNOME-MIDARE with ASHI to a wide ripple. The NIOI-FUKASHI and KO-NIE figures only increase through the MONOUCHI. NIJUBA striates and SUNAGASHI runs.

Signature ICHIMAE-BOSHI where URA is MARU.

O-SURIAGE NAKAGO has one MEKUGI-ANA and is finished with his KENGYO JIRI.

NAGASA: 68.9cm

SHINOGI-TSUKURI TACHI SUGATA with elongated CHU-KISSAKI. ITAME-HADA has JI-NIE. HAMON shows his typical flowing NOTARE holding GUNOME-MIDARE BA in deep NIOI and KO-NIE.

O-SURIAGE NAKAGO has the GO KENGYO style JIRI.

Long and running ITAME HADA gleams from the burnished wall of the SHINOGI-JI, while CHIKEI runs in the swirling, and tightly knit, MOKUME HADA of the JI. Lively and colorful JI-NIE stand shinning.

Crevasse and ravine-like KO-ASHI and YO cut and pull an intricate KO-GUNOME HA through the misty serenity achieved over this unique, multi-leveled KO-MIDARE YAKIBA, where the coordinated HATARAKI of one layer transposes itself into that of another. 
Arcing INAZUMA escape the vaporous ruptures of mounding NOTARE rises, which break apart through an increasing upper that leads to a GO YOSHIHIRO-signature, ICHIMAE-BOSHI.

A reaching MUNE-YAKI spills down the OMOTE. 

Two MEKUGI-ANA NAKAGO has the famous and unusual SU-KEN HORIMONO, on TACHI-OMOTE, testifying IYEYASU's SURIAGE repair.

YOSHIZANE(1) EN-GEN (f: YOSHIHIRO):  MATSUKURA JU. Worked along 
        the HOKURIKUDO for the North. ECHIZEN and KAGA. ITAME.
        SUGUHA and NOTARE. 2nd: SHI-TOKU, smithing in ECHIZEN.
    MEI: YOSHIZANE
         ECHIZEN-no-KUNI TACHIBANA YOSHIZANE
         ECHIZEN-no-KUNI JU TACHIBANA YOSHIZANE


TAMETSUGU EN-BUN (f: YOSHIHIRO):   From EN-BUN 1356 to O-AN 1368.
          Son and student. To ECHIZEN and MINO. IHORI-MUNE TACHI
          and KO-WAKIZASHI are wide.MU-SORIMITSU-MUNE TANTO or 
          shallow curve.ITAME of MASAME or MOKUMEUZU-MAKI HADA 
          withJI-NIEandCHIKEI. KO-NIEDEKI SUGUKO-NOTARE, or 
          KO-GUNOME with ASHI and YO. SUNAGASHI and YUBASHIRI. 
          BOSHI is MIDARE with HAKIKAKE. HOTSURE from the line.
    MEI: FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU
         FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU SAKU
         ESSHU JU FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU
         NOSHU JU FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU
         NOSHU JU FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU SAKU
         ECHIZEN-no-KUNI FUJIWARA TAMETSUGU


YOSHIHIRO TEI-WA (t: GO YOSHIHIRO): HIRO form: KWANG "Shed." 
          Possibly the same as GO YOSHIHIRO.
    MEI: ETCHU-no-KUNI MATSUKURA JU YOSHIHIRO

NORISHIGE TEI-JI (t: GO YOSHIHIRO): Working in ECHIGO, ETCHU and 
          SAGAMI. NIE-DEKI KO-MIDARE BA.
    MEI: ECHIGO-no-KUNI JU NORISHIGE