17 december 2019 Bizen Osafune Chōgi (備州長船住長義) Chōgi was last smith listed among Masamune no Jittetsu and was co-founder of the Sōden-Bizen style together with Osafune Kanemitsu.
08 december 2019 Yamashiro Rai Kunitsugu (山城来国次) Kunitsugu's swords looks like made under a strong Sōshū influence, because of his prominent and active nie structure; he was one of the "Masamune no J...
30 november 2019 Sekishū Naotsuna (石州直綱) Naotsuna the founder of the smiths line from Iwami province has been included amongst the Masamune no Jittetsu in books since the Muromachi period.
28 november 2019 Kongōbyōe Moritaka (金剛兵衛盛高) Some old sword manuscripts list him as one of the Masamune no Jittetsu.
17 november 2019 Shizu Saburō Kaneuji (志津三郎兼氏) In Kaneuji's works we can see the influence of both Masamune and Sadamune, as well as some master of a later Sōshū-Den period.
16 november 2019 Mino Kinjū (美濃金重) Kinjū founded the Seki School, which eventually branched out extensively, taking a prominent place in the history of smith art in Mino Province.
16 november 2019 Bizen Kanemitsu (備前兼光) Kanemitsu was born into a completely unique family of smiths, and was one of the so-called Masamune no Jittetsu, Sōden-Bizen style founder.
16 november 2019 Chikuzen Samonji (筑前左文字) Very few masters were called “great” and only one of them received an official nickname “Great Sa” (大左).
15 november 2019 Hasebe Kunishige (長谷部国重) The Hasebe School masters, Kunishige and Kuninobu replicated hitatsura technique most accurately and profoundly.
14 november 2019 Gō Yoshihiro (江義弘) “Nihon Sansaku”—“Three Japanese smiths”—a term that appeared in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s days. The names of these smiths are Masamune, Yoshimitsu, and Gō...
14 november 2019 Saeki Norishige (佐伯則重) Modern researchers consider Norishige the middle one in age among Shintōgo’s three disciples: Yukimitsu, Norishige, and Masamune.