Mishina
三品派 (Mishina-ha)
The other great school of Kyoto shintō: the Mishina family, from Seki, with Kinmichi, Yoshimichi and Masatoshi.
Style and characteristics
It keeps Mino features: a bōshi of its own shape, the Sanpin-bōshi, straight with a pointed turn-back; an itame jigane with masame in the shinogi-ji; a notare and gunome hamon. Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi created sudare-ba, a temper with lines recalling a bamboo blind.
History
Kanemichi, from Seki, moved to Kyoto with his four sons at the end of the sixteenth century: Iga no Kami Kinmichi, Izumi no Kami Kinmichi (the Rai Kinmichi line), Etchū no Kami Masatoshi and Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi. The Kinmichi line held the hereditary title of nihon kaji sōshō, head of the smiths of Japan. With Ōmi no Kami Hisamichi, the school shared the height of Kyoto shintō with Horikawa.
Smiths of the school
- Hisamichi 久道
- Iga no Kami Kinmichi 伊賀守藤原金道
- Iga no Kami Kinmichi 伊賀守金道
- Iga no Kami Kinmichi 伊賀守金道
- Ittetsusai Ōmichi 一徹斎大道
- Ōmi no Kami Hisamichi 近江守久道
- Rai Kinmichi 来金道
- Rai Kinmichi 来金道
- Tanba no Kami Yoshimichi 丹波守吉道
- Tango no Kami Kanemichi 丹後守兼道