Higashiyama Yoshihira

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Yoshihira (美平) is the name of a shintō-period smith, which one or several generations may have used. One blade is signed 東山住美平 (Higashiyama-jū Yoshihira), by which he declares himself a resident of Higashiyama (東山). Tomita Kiyama lists him as “Higashiyama ju Yoshihira” in his classification of shintō smiths, which, as the index that reproduces it warns, is more a list of smiths than a classification by their quality. The signature does not state the generation, and the reference works consulted record nothing more about him.