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The Eight DO
TOKAIDO - The Eight Roads of KOTO
IGA IGA: MOKUME with MASAME. SUGUKO-GUNOME
MIDARE. GUNOME-MIDARE KO-MIDARE in NIE.
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KUNITSUNA SABEInoJO: Said pupil of SAKON (AWATAGUCHI KUNITSUNA)
KEN-CHO 1249
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MUNECHIKA KEM-MU 1334 to TEI-JI 1362
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MUNECHIKA O-EI 1394 KUNITSUNA MUNETAKA MUNEYORI
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MUNECHIKA EI-SHO 1504 HIDENAGA EI-KYO 1429
MUNECHIKA KEM-MU: IGA OTOWA JU. AHAI-GORI. MOKUME with MASAME.
SUGUHA or SUGU KO-MIDARE GUNOME-MIDARE in NIE. It is
repetitiously noted in technicals that many swords with
MUNECHIKA inscriptions, have been fraudulently sold as
SANJO. Many are IGA swords.
KUNITSUNA TEI-JI (f: MUNECHIKA): MOKUME with MASAME. SUGU GUNOME-
MIDARE.
MUNETAKA TEI-JI (f: MUNECHIKA): MOKUME with MASAME. SUGUHA and
GUNOME-MIDARE.
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(f: TEGAI KANENAGA(1), t: KANENAGA 3)
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TEGAI KANEZANE(1) KO-AN 1361
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TEGAI KANEZANE(2) O-EI 1394
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IGA KANEZANE(3) BUN-AN 1444
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IGA KANEZANE(4) KO-SHO 1455
KANEZANE(3)BUN-AN: TEGAI smith from YAMATO. HOSO-SUGUHA and
GUNOME patterns showing HOTSURE and SUNAGASHI. BOSHI is
usually HAKIKAKE.
KANEZANE(4) KO-SHO: MAGOSHIRO. Worked to BUN-MEI. TEGAI work is
flowing and swept patterns with HOTSURE.
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