Kagami Yashamaro

鏡夜叉麿 (Kagami Yashamaro)

A smith from Hōfu, in Yamaguchi prefecture; selected at the NBTHK Gendai Tōshoku-ten in 2023.

A man with a white cloth on his head and white clothes looks along an unmounted blade, against the blue sky.
Photo: the smith himself

Profile

Kagami Yashamaro (鏡夜叉麿) forges in Hōfu, in Yamaguchi prefecture. At the NBTHK Exhibition of Contemporary Sword Craftsmen (Gendai Tōshoku-ten) in 2023 he was selected (nyūsen) in second place in the tachi and katana section.

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Kagami Yashamaro (鏡夜叉麿) Who he is, in a quick profile, and what is known and what is not. Read the monograph

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