Senjuin
千手院派 (Senjuin-ha)
The oldest of the five Yamato schools, at the foot of Mount Wakakusa, beside the Tōdai-ji.
Style and characteristics
Archaic tachi with deep koshizori and strong funbari, an itame jigane mixed with masame and a narrow nie suguha with ko-midare, sometimes with nijū-ba. Signed blades are few.
History
It is held to be the oldest of the Yamato schools, active by the end of the Heian period, near the Senju-dō hall on Mount Wakakusa. Among its names are Yukinobu, Shigehiro and Nagayoshi. In the Nanbokuchō period a branch settled at Akasaka, in Mino, and is known as Akasaka Senjuin or Mino Senjuin.