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YAMATO SHIKKAKE - NORINAGA School Technical: SUGATA - TACHI of high SHINOGI, wide SHINOGI-JI, and thin MUNE. Longish KISSAKI. HADA - KO-MOKUME with MASAME on the HA. There is CHIKEI and JI-NIE. HAMON - CHU-SUGUHA, SUGU KO-MIDARE KO-GUNOME in NIE. TAMAGAKI "String of Beads" pattern. HOTSURE. KINSUJI and NIJUBA. KO-ASHI and YO. BOSHI - SUGU KO-MARU. Little or no KAERI. HAKIKAKE. NAKAGO - Signed with town, school and name. ________ NORIHIRO KEN-JI 1275 |____________________ __________________ _____________ ___|____ -brothers- ___|____ ___|____ ___|____ NORINAGA(1) NORINARI SUKEHIRO HIROMURA | SHO-O 1288 | GEN-KYO 1321 EN-KEI 1308 SHO-O 1288 | ____________|_____________________ | ___|____ ___|____ ___|____ | NORIZANE NORIHIRO TEI-JI 1362 SUKEKUNI TEI-WA 1345 | TEI-JI 1362 ___|____ ___|____ | SUKENAGA O-EI 1394 IYEMITSU EI-TOKU 1381 | ________ _________ | NORIKUNI EN-BUN 1356 NAGAMITSU TEI-WA 1345 |_________________________ ___|____ ___|___ ________ NORINAGA(2) RYAKU-O 1338 NORIUJI SUKENAGA RYAKU-O 1338 |_____________________________________________ ___|____ ___|____ ____|____ NORINAGA(3) O-EI 1394 SUKEHIRO EI-TOKU 1381 SUKEYOSHI O-EI 1394 ___|____ ___|___ ________ NORINAGA(4) HIRONAO EI-TOKU 1381 SUKENARI O-EI 1394 EI-KYO 1429 _________ _______ ________ SUKESHIGE O-EI 1394 NORINAO O-AN 1368 SUKENARI ________ _______ BUN-MEI 1469 NORISADA EI-KYO 1429 NORINAO O-EI 1394 ________ ________ NORINAGA EI-SHO 1504 SUKEHIRA SHO-CHO 1428 (YAMASHIRO JU) NORINAGA(1) SHO-O (f: NORIHIRO): TAROZAEMON. 17 years old in SHO-O. Made TACHI, NAGINATA, KANMURI-OTOSHI and SHOBU TANTO. Raised and wide SHINOGI. MASAME HADA with JI-NIE and CHIKEI. May show YUBASHIRI. The complex SUGUHA has a delicate feeling. SUGU NIJU GUNOME KO-MIDARE in NIE. HOTSURE dapples along the HABUCHI much like SHIMA-BA. NIJU-like structures from SUNAGASHI and KINSUJI. BOSHI is a NIJU SUGU with KAEN HAKIKAKE or MIDARE-KOMI but usually "Swept." MEI: YAMATO NORINAGA YAMATO NORINAGA SAKU YAMATO SHIKKAKE JU NORINAGA SAKU YAMATO-no-KUNI SHIKKAKE JU NORINAGA SAKU |
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BUNKAZAI NORINAGA NAGASA: 70.6cm SORI: 3.3cm Once with greater curve, this SURIAGE TACHI has raised SHINOGI and IHORI- MUNE. It's broad strength climbs to a CHU-KISSAKI. Standing MASAME HADA has JI-NIE. KO-NOTARE with KO-GUNOME MIDARE BA finds NIJUBA in the MONOUCHI. SUNAGASHI streams under fine KO-NIE. MIDARE-KOMI BOSHI sees HAKIKAKE YAKIZUME KAERI. Two MEKUGI-ANA, SURIAGE NAKAGO has been constructed with HA-AGARI JIRI. The original ANA resides next to his MEI which is cut through the "SAKU."YAMATO NORINAGA SAKU |
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NAGASA: 73.6cm SORI: 2.0cm SHINOGI-TSUKURI, IHORI-MUNE, SURIAGE TACHI has raised SHINOGI and CHU-KISSAKI. ITAME has MASAME HADA with strong JI-NIE. CHU-SUGU width KO-GUNOME of KO-ASHI has UCHI-NOKE shaped HOTSURE spreading from the tops. ASHI "feet" run high and low and NIE NIJUBA dots and runs above the HABUCHI. SANJU HAKIKAKE BOSHI runs YAKIZUME. KIRI cut SURIAGE NAKAGO has two MEKUGI-ANA and signed at the bottom: YAMATO NORINAGA SAKU |
NORINAGA(2) RYAKU-O: Worked in the later years of the 1st and in his style. MEI: YAMATO NORINAGA SAKU YAMATO-no-KUNI SHIKKAKE NORINAGA YAMATO SAKON-no-SUKE NORINAGA SAKU NORINAGA(3) O-EI: SUGU KO-MIDARE or GUNOME HA with NIE-KUZURE. MEI: NORINAGA SAKU YAMATO SHIKKAKE NORINAGA SAKU NORINAGA(4) EI-KYO: SUGUHA and GUNOME patterns. MEI: NORINAGA NORINAGA SAKU NORINARI GEN-KYO (br: NORINAGA): KO-NIE DEKI GUNOME-MIDARE having NIE-KUZURE. NIJUBA. Style of his brother. MEI: NORINARI YAMATO-no-KUNI JU NORINARI HIROMURA SHO-O (f: SENJUIN SHIGEMURA, t: SHIKKAKE NORIHIRO): He lived and studied in YAMASHIRO, marrying KUNIYUKI's daughter, and brought SHIKKAKE and RAI teachings to HIGO. One of the great arguments of modern sword study wrestles the proposition of the origins of RAI. HIROMURA's father, SENJUIN SHIGEMURA is noted for his MUTSU, MOKUSA roots. RAI School changes YAKIBA style from the strong, boisterous GUNOME-CHOJI of Two-characters KUNITOSHI to the Three-characters RAI KUNITOSHI SUGUHA of SHO-O 1288, famous to the long line of students, KUNIMITSU, RYOKAI, MITSUKANE, etc. It is held that the "Coming" RAI School source is KOREAN forging techniques "coming" via MUTSU. HIROMURA and his son, KUNIMURA, were the orchestrators of ENJU. ENJU is finely worked SHIRA-KERU colored steel with a, presumed, RAI rooted CHU-SUGUHA. HIROMURA is thought to span the time frame from RAI KUNIYUKI's SHO-GEN 1259 to Three-character RAI KUNITOSHI's SHO-O 1288 SUGUHA dominance. See YAMASHIRO RAI and HIGO MEI: HIROMURA NAGAMITSU TEI-WA: MASAME. NIJU SUGU with ASHI. HIGAKI YASURI. MEI: NAGAMITSU SUKEHIRO EI-TOKU (t: NORINAGA): MASAME with JI-NIE. KO-NIE SUGU KO-GUNOME HA with HAKIKAKE and SUNAGASHI. SUKEHIRO(1) EN-KEI 1308 was pupil of NORIHIRO. MEI: WASHU SHIKKAKE SUKEHIRO HIRONAO EI-TOKU (f: SUKEHIRO): Worked through O-EI. ITAME of MASAME. MIDARE HA. MEI: YAMATO-no-KUNI HIRONAO SUKEYOSHIO-EI (t:NORINAGA): SUGU HOTSURE BA and GUNOMEHA with ASHI-IRI. MEI: YAMATO-no-KUNI SUKEYOSHI SAKU SUKEHIRA SHO-CHO: MASAME. KO-NIE DEKI SUGUHA with HOTSURE. SUGU GUNOME KO-MIDARE. HAKIKAKE BOSHI. MEI: WASHU JU SUKEHIRA |
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