Kantei
A stretch of the two faces of a blade, with the undulating temper line, on a black background.

Photo: dealer in Japan

Shinsaku Meitōten · mukansa in doubt

Prizes

His results are not online year by year: only the total of selections given by the Gamagōri museum is known.

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  1. What is known

What is known

YearCompetitionPrizeWork
1967Agency for Cultural AffairsSwordsmith’s licence (作刀承認, sakutō shōnin), in November—
No date新作名刀展 (Shinsaku Meitōten), NBTHKTwenty-seven selections (入選, nyūsen)—
No dateNBTHKMukansa (無鑑査, mukansa): the Gamagōri museum says so; he is not on Markus Sesko’s list—