Fujiwara Motohisa
藤原元久 (Fujiwara Motohisa)
A Gamagōri smith (1934-2008), son of the smith Fujiwara Takenori, of the Ishidō Korekazu line; selected twenty-seven times in the NBTHK contest of new swords.
Profile
Fujiwara Motohisa was born in 1934 and forged at Takeya, in Gamagōri (Aichi), the old province of Mikawa. From 1950 he trained under his father, the smith Fujiwara Takenori, in a family of tool smiths who turned to forging swords and whose line goes back to the school of Ishidō Korekazu. He was licensed in 1967 and was selected twenty-seven times in the annual NBTHK contest of new swords. He forged long blades that cut well, in the Bizen and Yamato manners, favoured by many iaidō practitioners and by the founder of Nakamura-ryū battōdō, Nakamura Taizaburō. He died in 2008. In 2023 the Gamagōri museum exhibited his work and his father's.
Monograph
Fujiwara Motohisa (藤原元久)
The second generation of a family forge in Mikawa, with twenty-seven selections at the NBTHK exhibition of new work, told with the level of evidence of each fact.
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