Enryūshi Kunihide

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Kunihide (国秀) is a name of the shinshintō period known from its signatures, with the surname Tachibana (立花) and the gō Enryūshi (圓龍子). One blade is signed 相州正宗末葉立花圓龍子藤原国秀 (Sōshū Masamune matsuyō Tachibana Enryūshi Fujiwara Kunihide), by which its maker declares himself a descendant of Masamune of Sagami, and bears the date of the second month of 1843 (Tenpō 14); another, dated to the eighth month of 1861 (Bunkyū 1), is signed 相州鎌倉住立花国秀作 (Sōshū Kamakura-jū Tachibana Kunihide saku) and declares him a resident of Kamakura (鎌倉), in Sagami. The signature does not give the generation.