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  2. Nagasone Kotetsu - Wikipedia

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    Nagasone Kotetsu, rated as Saijo Ō Wazamono, was one of the most popular swordsmiths in the Edo period.A katana, Nabeshima Kotetsu. (owned by Nabeshima clan). Nagasone Kotetsu (長曾禰 虎徹, c. 1597 – June 24, 1678) (born Nagasone Okisato) was a Japanese swordmaker of the early Edo period.

  3. List of Wazamono - Wikipedia

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    Katana forged by Nagasone Kotetsu. The letters inlaid with gold on the tang (nakago) indicated that Yamano Kauemon (山野加右衛門), the official executioner of the Tokugawa shogunate and examiner of sword cutting performance, cut four human torsos overlapped. [6]

  4. Japanese swordsmithing - Wikipedia

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    Visual glossary of Japanese sword terms. Japanese swordsmithing is the labour-intensive bladesmithing process developed in Japan beginning in the sixth century for forging traditionally made bladed weapons [1] [2] including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and ya.

  5. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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    The katana forged by Nagasone Kotetsu, one of the top-rated swordsmiths, became very popular at the time when the book was published, and many counterfeits were made. In these books, the three swordsmiths treated specially in " Kyōhō Meibutsu Chō " and Muramasa , who was famous at that time for forging swords with high cutting ability, were ...

  6. List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) - Wikipedia

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    One tantō by Norishige and two katana by Gō Yoshihiro have been designated as national treasures. Generally Norishige's sugata is characteristic of the time: tantō are with not-rounded fukura [j 46] and uchi-zori, thick kasane and steep slopes of iori-mune. [j 47] The jihada is matsukawa-hada [j 48] with thick ji-nie, many chikei along the o ...

  7. English: Katana forged by Nagasone Kotetsu. The letters inlaid with gold on the tang (nakago) indicated that Yamada Kauemon, the official executioner of the Tokugawa shogunate and examiner of sword cutting performance, cut the four human torso overlapped.

  8. Kondō Isami - Wikipedia

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    Kondō was said to have owned a katana called "Kotetsu" , the work of the 17th century swordsmith Nagasone Kotetsu. However, the authenticity of his "Kotetsu" is highly debatable. According to Yasu Kizu's pamphlet on the swordmaker Kotetsu, Kondō's sword may actually have been made by Minamoto no Kiyomaro , a swordmaker of high repute roughly ...

  9. Hamon (swordsmithing) - Wikipedia

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    Katana, showing the hamon as the outline of the yakiba. The nioi appears faintly as the bright line following the hamon; especially visible at the tip (kissaki). In swordsmithing, hamon (刃文) (from Japanese, literally "edge pattern") is a visible effect created on the blade by the hardening process.

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