Kaneteru
兼照 (Kaneteru)
A smith of the Akamatsu Tarō family of Yatsushiro (Kumamoto), second son of Kimura Kaneshige and uncle of Kanemitsu; born in 1957, he has forged since 1988.
Profile
Kaneteru (兼照) signs Akamatsu Tarō Kaneteru, after his family’s forge in Yatsushiro, in Kumamoto prefecture. He is the second son of the smith Kimura Kaneshige, brother of Kanetsugu and Kanehiro and uncle of Akamatsu Tarō Kanemitsu.
He forges with the steel the family smelts itself and takes Minamoto Kiyomaro as his model. Katana of his dated from 2001 to 2009 are known, among them a Kiyomaro copy from 2007.
Monograph
Kaneteru (兼照)
Who Kaneteru is, in a profile and a summary, with the level of evidence of each fact.
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