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Contemporary Swords and Artworks List of Works 2020 Contemporary Swords and Artworks - The Ancient Techniques Inherited For Generations - The Japanese Sword Museum Period: Sep 5 (Sat) - Oct 18 (Sun) 1st Exhibition: Sep 5 (Sat) - Sep 27 (Sun) 2nd Exhibition: Sep 29 (Tue) - Oct 18 (Sun) ◆ Sakutō (Blade Forging) Division Exhibiting Periods Capacity Type Sign Length Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Kokaji YOSHINDO kore wo tsukuru Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsu 21 nichi Master Katana Signed 77.1 cm Tokyo Yoshihara Yoshihito Kiju kinen hori dōsaku Yamato-no-kuni jū Gassan SADATOSHI hori dōsaku (monogram) Master Katana Signed 72.1 cm Nara Gassan Kiyoshi Reiwa 1 nen 11 gatsu kisshō jitsu Hasedō jū TSUNEHIRA saku Master Katana Signed 71.3 cm Yamagata Kanbayashi Yūji Reiwa 2 nen 3 gatsujitsu KIYOFUSA Master Tantō Signed 29.65 cm Iwate Yamaguchi Takeshi Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Michi KUNIHIRA kore wo tsukuru Master Tantō Signed 27.15 cm Nara Kawachi Michio Reiwa 2 nen haru Tōto jūnin Ōno YOSHIMITSU kore wo tsukuru Master Tachi Signed 80.4 cm Tokyo Yoshikawa Mitsuo Narau Sanchōmō Reiwa 2 nen haru Zukuoroshi wo motte NORIHIRO Master Katana Signed 72.7 cm Nagano Miyairi Norihiro Reiwa 2 nen yayoi Matsuda TSUGUYASU saku Master Tachi Signed 89.75 cm Chiba Matsuda Shūji Reiwa 2 nen haru kichijitsu Nisshū KUNIMASA saku Master Tachi Signed 80.7 cm Miyazaki Matsuba Ichiro Reiwa 2 nen haru Master Tachi Signed YOSHIHIRO 66.4 cm Hiroshima Kubo Yoshihiro Harima-no-kuni jū Takami KUNIICHI kore wo tsukuru Master Tachi Signed 76.7 cm Hyogo Takami Kazuyoshi Reiwa 2 nen senri Ōtei 〇Tachi, Katana, Wakizashi, Naginata, and Yari Exhibiting Periods Award Type Sign Length Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Takamatsunomiya MASATADA saku Tachi Signed 79.1 cm Shiga Kitagawa Tetsushi Memorial Award Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Jō-shū jū TSUNEYOSHI saku Kunzan Award Tachi Signed 75.7 cm Gunma Takahashi Masaya Reiwa 2 nen 3 gatsujitsu SHINPEI saku Kanzan Award Tachi Signed 74.8 cm Tochigi Katō Masaya Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Yamato jū Gassan SADANOBU tsukuru (monogram) President's Award Katana Signed 75.5 cm Nara Gassan Ichirō Reiwa 2 nen kisshō jitsu Kameido jū TOMOYUKI Excellence Award 1 Wakizashi Signed 55.5 cm Tokyo Miyagi Tomoyuki Reiwa 2 nen 3 gatsu KIYOHIRO Excellence Award 2 Tachi Signed 74.0 cm Fukui Morikuni Toshifumi Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Nisshū ni oite YOSHIMASA saku Excellence Award 3 Tachi Signed Reiwa 1 nen koharu 90.7 cm Okayama Tomioka Keiichirō (New Face Award) Shōji ni sasageru Sa MOTOHIRA Achievement Award 1 Wakizashi Signed 32.8 cm Niigata Shinbo Motoharu Reiwa 1 nen kagurazuki Higo-no-kuni Yatsushiro jū KANEMITSU saku Achievement Award 2 Tachi Signed 79.4 cm Kumamoto Kimura Mitsuhiro Reiwa 2 nen shoshun Bizen-no-kuni jū MASANORI saku Achievement Award 3 Tachi Signed 76.8 cm Okayama Sone Hiroshi Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsu kichijitsu Kōnoyama jū Kaneda KUNIZANE kore wo tsukuru Achievement Award 4 Tachi Signed 78.9 cm Nara Kaneda Tatsukichi Kachō Reiwa 2 nen kichijitsu YOSHITAKA Achievement Award 5 Tachi Signed 72.9 cm Chiba Yamashita Hiroshi Reiwa 1 nen 12 gatsujitsu KUNIMUNE Achievement Award 6 Tachi Signed 80.2 cm Ehime Fujita Sōkyū Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Miike jū Shirō KUNIMITSU saku Achievement Award 7 Tachi Signed 77.7 cm Fukuoka Komiya Soyomitsu Reiwa 1 nen 6 gatsu kichijitsu Bizen-no-kuni Osafune HIROYASU kore wo tsukuru Achievement Award 8 Tachi Signed Kanai Kiyoshi no tame 73.3 cm Okayama Andō Yūsuke Reiwa 2 nen Akashi hatsudōki kōsakusho 100 shūnen kinen 〇Tantō and Ken Exhibiting Periods Award Type Sign Length Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Excellence Award Tantō Signed HIROYASU saku 29.0 cm Okayama Andō Yūsuke MUNEYASU Achievement Award 1 Tantō Signed 25.4 cm Saitama Kamihata Makoto Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Shinano jū KIYONAO kore wo tsukuru Achievement Award 2 Tantō Signed 25.6 cm Nagano Matsukawa Takashi Reiwa 2 nen kōshi haru Kai-no-kuni SHIGEMITSU saku Achievement Award 3 Tantō Signed 25.8 cm Yamanashi Itō Shigemitsu Reiwa 2 kōshi shōkan Achievement Award 4 Tantō Signed YOSHIHITO saku 24.4 cm Tokyo Haoka Makoto Shirō KUNITOSHI Achievement Award 5 Tantō Signed 27.8 cm Gunma Ishida Kunihisa Reiwa kōshi nen Hana-no-en KAZUMUNE Achievement Award 6 Tantō Signed 25.2 cm Gifu Okamoto Katsuhiro Heisei matsu nen haru ◆ Kenma (Sword Polishing) Division Exhibiting Periods Capacity Type Sign Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 (Re-inserted Master Katana Tokyo Fujishiro Okisato Inscription) Bi-shū Osafune jū KANEMITSU Naginata- Master naoshi Unsigned Tan-shū Hōjōji KUNIMITSU Chiba Yanagawa Seiji Katana (Folded Master Katana Fukuoka Kawamoto Kōsei Inscription) HIDETSUGU Master Katana Unsigned CHIKAKAGE Tokyo Usuki Yoshihiko Master Katana Unsigned Nagano Kumai Kōtetsu Bizen-no-kuni jū Osafune Shichirōemon-no-jō SUKESADA saku Master Katana Signed Hyogo Sugihara Muneto Tenshō 8 nen 2 gatsujitsu ○Shinogi-zukuri Exhibiting Periods Award Type Sign Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Tsuda Echizen-no-kami SUKEHIRO Kiya Award Katana Singed Chiba Matsumura Sōtarō Enpō 3 nen 8 gatsujitsu Takeya Award Tachi Singed YOSHIHIRO Okayama Yokoyama Tomonobu Amata AKITSUGU kore wo tsukuru Chiba Award Katana Singed Heisei 3 nen 8 gatsujitsu Saitama Akita Yūki Yamakawa-ke jūdai Yamato-no-kuni jū Gassan SADANOBU tsukuru(monogram) Kunzan Award Katana Signed Nara Sekiyama Kazumichi Reiwa 2 nen haru kisshōjitsu Ikkanshi MUNEAKI kore wo tsukuru Kanzan Award Katana Singed Miyagi Miura Hirotaka Genji 2 icchū nen 2 gatsu kichijitsu Miyata Nobuyoshi no motome ni kotaeru President's Award 1 Tachi Signed ICHI Gifu Hirai Takamori Bi-shū Osafune YOSHIMITSU saku President's Award 2 Katana Signed Gunma Hosomura Masakatsu Kanshō 3 nen 8 gatsujitsu President's Award 3 Katana Singed Hizen-no-kuni jū Ōmi-daijō Fujiwara-no-TADAYOSHI Fukuoka Morodomi Tsuyoshi Bizen-no-kuni Osafune jū KAGEMASA Excellence Award 1 Tachi Signed Tokyo Kamiyama Yoshie Ryakuō 3 kōshin 2 gatsujitsu Sa YUKIHIDE Excellence Award 2 Katana Signed Tokyo Tada Yoshinori Kaei 5 nen 2 gatsujitsu Excellence Award 3 Tachi Signed NOBUTSUGU saku Kanagawa Korezawa Kōshō KIYOHIRO Excellence Award 4 Tachi Singed Gifu Kagami Genta Reiwa 2 nen 2 gatsujitsu Kawachi-no-kami Kunisuke KUNIHIRA kore Excellence Award 5 Tachi Signed Tottori Kashiwagi Ryō Ten ni saku Hōzuki Reiwa 2 nen kichijitsu Shigemitsu kore Ryūjin Tarō Minamoto SADASHIGE hori dōsaku(monogram) Excellence Award 6 Katana Signed Saitama Kawakami Yōichiro Reiwa 1 nen 9 gatsujitsu Excellence Award 7 Katana Unsigned KATAYAMA ICHIMONJI Tokyo Nagaoka Yasumasa Nisshū KUNIMASA saku Achievement Award 1 Tachi Signed Fukuoka Komiya Mitsutoshi Reiwa 2 nen haru Achievement Award 2 Katana Unsigned TAIMA Saitama Sagara Yūichi Achievement Award 3 Tachi Signed MORITSUGU(Ko-Aoe) Kyoto Tamaki Jōji (Gold powder SA Achievement Award 4 Katana Iwate Kikuchi Masamichi inscription) Hon'a(monogram) Miike-jū Shirō KUNIMITSU saku Achievement Award 5 Tachi Signed Fukuoka Matsuo Kiyotake Reiwa 1 nen 6 gatsu kichijitsu Achievement Award 6 Katana Signed Mutsu-daijō Miyoshi NAGAMICHI Shizuoka Fukumori Katsuichiro Ishidō Unju KOREKAZU seitan Achievement Award 7 Katana Signed Gunma Kakinuma Shinichi Bunkyū 3 nen 8 gatsujitsu Enju NOBUTSUGU tsukuru Achievement Award 8 Tachi Signed Fukuoka Okishima Daiki Shōwa kōshi nen 5 gatsujitsu ○Hira-zukuri Exhibiting Periods Award Type Sign Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Excellence Award 1 Tantō Signed KANESADA Gifu Hirai Takamori Chiku-shū Sannō jū So TSUTOMU Excellence Award 2 Wakizashi Signed Fukuoka Matsuo Kiyotake Heisei 27 nen shoshun KUNIHIRA kore wo tsukuru Excellence Award 3 Tantō Signed Tottori Kashiwagi Ryō Reiwa 2 nen natsu (crest)Tanba-no-kami YOSHIMICHI Excellence Award 4 Tantō Signed Izumi-no-kami Rai KINMICHI Kumamoto Yamashita Chiho (mune)Okamoto kura-no-jō Yoshinari Excellence Award 5 Tantō Signed HIROYASU saku Gifu Kagami Genta Sui-fu jū TOKUKATSU kuni-satetsu wo motte kore wo tsukuru Achievement Award 1 Wakizashi Signed Yamagata Satō Hideaki Ansei 5 nen 2 gatsujitsu Osaka jūnin Gassan SADAKATSU kinsaku(monogram) Achievement Award 2 Tantō Signed Tokyo Hendrik Lindelauf Shōwa 6 nen 2 gatsu kisshōjitsu HIDEKAZU saku Achievement Award 3 Tantō Signed Aomori Hosogoe Takayoshi Keiō 4 nen kiku gatsujitsu ◆ Tōshinbori (Sword Engraving） Division Exhibiting Periods Award Type Title Sign Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Front: Tamaoi ryū Kunzan Award Wakizashi Signed SŌJU kore Okayama Yanagimura Masayuki Back: Fudō myō-ō shingon Front: Hō-ō SHIGETSUNE kore wo horu Achievement Award 1 Tantō Signed Okayama Katayama Kō Back: Tonanhōyoku, kiri-no-hana Reiwa 2 nen haru kichijitsu Front: Fudō myō-ō Achievement Award 2 Tantō Signed MARI kore wo horu Tokyo Irie Mari Back: Bonji, gomabashi, rendai ◆ Shirasaya (Scabbard) Division Exhibiting Periods Award Type Work Prefecture Name 7/6 7/30 ~7/28 ~8/18 Excellence Award 1 Katana Shirasaya Iwate Nagahora Osamu Excellence Award 2 Katana Shirasaya Ibaraki Chiba Toshikazu Achievement Award 1 Katana Shirasaya Ibaraki Chiba Masayoshi Achievement Award 2 Katana Shirasaya Gifu Kawai Hiroaki ◆ Tōsō (Mounting) Division Exhibiting Periods Award Title Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 President's Award Kurourushi-nuri saya uchigatana-koshirae Fukuoka Kubo Kentarō Excellence Award Kataki namichidori mon fuki-urushi saya aikuchi-wakizashi-koshirae Chiba Akiyama Noboru ◆ Chōkin (Fitting) Division Exhibiting Periods Capacity / Award Type Title Sign Prefecture Name 9/5 9/29 ~9/27 ~10/18 Master TOSHIYUKI Tsuba Bukan sukashi zōgan daishō tsuba Signed Ehime Tamaoka Toshiyuki (Reference Exhibit) Heisei 30 nen Chikuzen MASAOMI saku Master Tsuba Tatsutagawa
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