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Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (五郎入道正宗, Priest Gorō Masamune, c. 1264 –1343) [2] was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō , in the Sōshū school .
The Sacred Blacksmith (Japanese: 聖剣の 刀鍛冶 （ ブラックスミス ）, Hepburn: Seiken no Burakkusumisu, lit. "The Sacred Sword Blacksmith"), is a Japanese light novel series by Isao Miura, with illustrations by Luna. 16 volumes were published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label from November 2007 to August 2013.
Blacksmith Munechika (end of the 10th century), helped by a fox spirit, forging the blade kogitsune-maru ("Little fox"). The spirit is represented by a woman surrounded by foxes. Engraving by Ogata Gekkō (1859–1920), 1873. Japanese swords are generally made by a division of labor between six and eight craftsmen.
Written by Tamamaru, My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World began serialization on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō on December 18, 2018. [3] It was later acquired by Fujimi Shobo who began publishing it as a light novel with illustrations by Kinta on December 10, 2019. Ten volumes have been released as of ...
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Stories about Benkei's birth vary considerably. One tells how his father was the head of a temple shrine who had raped his mother, the daughter of a blacksmith. [citation needed] Another sees him as the offspring of a temple god. [citation needed] Many give him the attributes of a demon, a monster child with wild hair and long teeth.
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.
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