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Swordsmith of Seki (Gifu) · school of Fujiwara Kanefusa

Fukudome Fusayuki (福留房幸)

A swordsmith from Seki, a pupil of Fujiwara Kanefusa, engraver and archer, who promoted the reconstruction of the ōdachi Hotarumaru for the Aso shrine: his life, his work and his videos, with the level of evidence of each fact

Fukudome Fusayuki (福留房幸) was born in Fukuoka and forges in Seki, in Gifu Prefecture. He learned with the 25th Fujiwara Kanefusa (藤原兼房), is a blade engraver and a kyūdō archer, and was the promoter of the reconstruction of the ōdachi Hotarumaru (蛍丸, Hotarumaru) for the Aso shrine, which he forged with Kōroki Fusaoki (興梠房興).

Photo: the smith himself

1985
Born in Fukuoka
2010
Licence from the Agency for Cultural Affairs
2015
Founds the association that reconstructs the Hotarumaru (蛍丸, Hotarumaru)
2017
Offers the replica to the Aso shrine
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Quick profile

Name
Fukudome Fusayuki HD
Kanji and reading
福留房幸 · ふくどめ ふさゆき (Fukudome Fusayuki) AT
Birth
1985, in the city of Fukuoka AT
Where he forges
Shitsuno (志津野, Shitsuno), in Seki (Gifu) AT
Master
The 25th Fujiwara Kanefusa (藤原兼房, Fujiwara Kanefusa), in Seki, since 2005 AT
School or tradition
That of the Fujiwara Kanefusa workshop, in Seki (Mino) AT
Licence
2010, from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁, Bunkachō); independent since October 2011 AT
Rank
No NBTHK prizes or rank that we have found PC

In short

What we know. In 2005 he entered the workshop of the 25th Fujiwara Kanefusa, in Seki, obtained his licence in 2010 and became independent in 2011. Since 2015 he has chaired the association that reconstructed the Hotarumaru, a lost sword of the Aso shrine, and in 2017 he offered it to the shrine with Kōroki Fusaoki, his fellow apprentice. Kōroki also tells it in the Ōita Prefecture magazine: the replica, an ōdachi of about 136 cm and 2.5 kg, was made without the original, from documents and an oshigata (押形, oshigata) kept in Kumamoto.

What we do not know. We have not found any NBTHK prizes of his, nor photos or descriptions of the blades he forges in the new smithy he opened in 2024.

Sections

  1. From Fukuoka to Seki Life and forging His apprenticeship with Fujiwara Kanefusa, his Shitsuno workshop, the Hotarumaru project and kyūdō.
  2. Ko-itame and gunome Work and style His documented blades, his engravings, his arrowheads and the replica of the Hotarumaru.
  3. What is not on record Prizes We have not found any prizes of his in the NBTHK lists.
  4. The Hotarumaru, from the forge to the offering Videos Four videos of the Hotarumaru project: the ritual forging, the hardening, the offering at Aso and the donation to Seki.
  5. Bibliography and credits Sources The sources consulted on 4 October 2026 and the credit of each image.