SUWO - NIO School   * The Deities Of The Gate *
             KO-NIO: Under the blanket of YAMATO style.  
                      Can have curve. Raised SHINOGI, thin MUNE.
                      MOKUME with MASAME that is KUMORI "cloudy."
_________             HOSO-SUGU KUZURE BA with KO-ASHI. HOTSURE.
KIYOSHIGE DAI-DO 806
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KIYOSUKE KAN-TOKU 1044
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KIYOHIRA YOSHIKI Founder HO-EN 1135
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KIYOZANE Founding Father HO-EN 1135 to KA-O 1169  
   |______________________ ___________________________
___|____              ____|____    - brothers -    ___|____ 
KIYOTADA(1) SHO-AN    KIYOTSUNA(1) GEN-KYU 1204    KIYONAGA(1) 
___|_____      1171       |________________________   SHO-AN 1171
YOSHIKIYO             ____|____                 ___|____         
   | SHO-GEN 1207     KIYOTSUNA(2) JO-EI 1232   KIYOKAGE(1)      
   |                  ____|____                    | BUN-RYAKU 1234
   |                  KIYOTSUNA(3) BUN-EI 1264     |   
   |                  ____|____                    | 
   |                  KIYOMITSU(1) SHO-AN 1299     | 
   |                  ____|___                     | 
   |                  KIYOMITSU(2) GEN-KO 1331     | 
   |                      |__________              | 
   |                  ____|____    __|_____        |  
   |                  KIYOMITSU(3) KIYOSADA        | 
___|____                 - TEI-JI 1362 -           | 
KIYOZANE KEN-CHO 1249                              |
   |______________________                         |
___|____               ___|____                    |
KIYOZANE BUN-EI 1264   KIYOHIRA(1) BUN-O 1260      |
     _____________________|                        |
____|____              ___|____                    |
KIYOTSUNA EI-NIN 1293  KIYOHIRA(2) KO-AN 1278      |
    |  ________               _________            |
    |  KIYOHISA SHO-O 1288    YOSHIKIYO KO-AN 1278 |
    |_______________________                       |
____|____                ___|____                  |
KIYOTSUNA GEN-TOKU 1329  KIYOTADA                  |
____|____                GEN-TOKU                  |
KIYOTSUNA TEI-JI 1362         1329                 |
  _________________________________________________|
_|______                                        ___|____  
KIYONAGA(2) KEN-JI 1275                         KIYOKAGE(2)   
 |___________________            __________________| KO-AN 1278
_|______-brothers-___|____   ___|____           ___|____           
KIYOTADA          KIYOHARU   MASAKIYO SHO-CHU   KIYOKAGE KA-REKI 1326
 | O-CHO 1311   EN-KEI 1308  ___|____     1324  ___|____  
 |__________ ________        KIYOMASA           KIYOKAGE EI-TOKU 1381
_|______ ___|____ ___|____    EN-GEN 1336       ___|____   
KIYOMASA KIYOZANE MASAKIYO                      KIYOMASA
 |   - TEI-WA 1345 -      ________                MEI-TOKU 1390 
_|_______                 KIYOFUSA KA-REKI 1326 
KIYOSHIGE EN-BUN 1356       (AKI and NAGATO)     
_|______                          ________         
MASAKIYO O-EI 1394                KIYONAKA TEI-JI 1362  
                                  ___|____ 
                                  KIYOSATO MEI-TOKU 1390

KIYOZANE(1) YAMATO smith arriving through CHIKUZEN is founder and
        father in SUWO. YAMATO style raised SHINOGI becomes 
        tradition. His dates,  and many of his school, are 
        obscured because KIYOTSUNA's BUN-EI period TACHI resides
        on ITSUKU-SHIMA island. Attributions arising from legend
        give it to KIYOTSUNA(1) - who actually worked sixty years
        before. Therefore, swords seen will be late HEIAN to 
        early KAMAKURA style. It was before the ICHIMONJI - these
        men wept for little ANTOKU.

KIYOTSUNA KEN-KYU (f: KIYOZANE): NIOSABURO. A sword of his making
        cut the binding chain to save the Deities of the NIO-MON
        from the temple fire at KISAKI village, - earning himself,
        and his school, their name. MOKUME. GUNOME-CHOJI BA.

KIYOTSUNA BUN-EI: NIOSABURO. YOSHIKI NIOSHO JU. His posited sword
        arms the island of the "Shrines of the Three Daughters,"
        ITSUKU-SHIMA. Legend says he was KIYOTSUNA(1), which 
        dis-joins the dates for his school. BUN-EI KIYOTSUNA is 
        said to have come from CHIKUZEN. TACHI are thick 
        KOSHIZORI of raised SHINOGI and wide SHINOGI-JI. KO-ITAME
        with KO-MASAME has spotting UTSURI swathed in places. 
        KO-NIE SUGUHA  has KO-ASHI. HOTSURE watches SUNAGASHI run
        through GUNOME KO-MIDARE HA.

KIYOTSUNA EI-NIN: Deeply curved TACHI with raised and wide 
        SHINOGI. KO-ITAME that runs. SUGU ASAKI-NOTARE and GUNOME
        KO-MIDARE HA in KO-NIE.

KIYOTSUNA GEN-TOKU: He used alternate TSUNA form: NAWA. Deeply 
        curved, CHU-KISSAKI TACHI. Running KO-ITAME of MASAME.
        KO-NIE SUGU ASAKI-NOTARE KO-GUNOME HA with ASHI. BOSHI is
        SUGU KO-MARU.

KIYOTSUNA KEM-MU: KUGA JU. Worked to TEI-WA 1345. SUGUHA GUNOME-
        CHOJI BA.

YOSHIKIYO KO-AN: MOKUME. GUNOME-MIDARE and CHOJI-MIDARE with ASHI.

KIYONAGA(2) KEN-JI (f: KIYOKAGE): SUGUHA and KO-GUNOME HA.

MASAKIYO SHO-WA (f: KIYOKAGE):  Dates are SHO-WA to SHO-CHU 1324.
        MOKUME. HOSO-SUGU GUNOME HA and CHOJI patterns in NIE.

KIYOSADA TEI-JI (f: KIYOMITSU 2): ITAME. SUGU KO-MIDARE HA and 
        GUNOME-MIDARE.

MASAKIYO O-EI (f: KIYOSHIGE): ITAME. CHU or HIRO-SUGU KO-MIDARE 
        or GUNOME-MIDARE HA.