EDO - MUSASHI PROVINCE
EDO -
MUSASHI
NAGASONE SHO-HO
1644
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OKISATO
(KOTETSU)
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OKIMASA OKIHISA
OKINAO
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The
fine points of KOTETSU can not
be covered in the
short. His ¨works show the
sophisticated reserve that
defined SHINTO.
Blades ¨are KO-MOKU with MASAME
in the SHINOGI.
JI-NIE. Moisture. CHU-¨SUGU
NOTARE,
KO-NOTARE GUNOME-MIDARE of fine
NIE. The
JI-HADA becomes strong, or
rough, toward the MACHI
area. Clear, strong ¨steel.
The
Honami correctly
stated that
Kaneshige
was the teacher of
Kotetsu
There
has been notion
circulated that
Kaneshige was
younger than his
student, KOTETSU and
that therefore,
the KOTETSU's teacher
must have been
Kazusa-no-Kami
Kaneshige's father,
IZUMI-no-KAMI.
However, everyone
was younger than
Kotetsu. Kotetsu
was an armor-maker
until he took up
sword-making at 50.
Joining the
competition of
comparatively youthful
smiths
in the Capitol, he was
known as the old-man
with the
old-tricks (of using
old iron) and hence
his name:
Ko-Tetesu "Old-Iron"
He
did learn his craft,
as stated by the
Honami, from the
younger man,
KAZUSA-no-KAMI
KANESHIGE
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