Katō Shinpei
加藤慎平 (Katō Shinpei)
A smith from Tochigi prefecture; Kanzan Prize in 2024 and 2026 and NBTHK President’s Prize in 2025 at the Gendai Tōshoku-ten.
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Katō Shinpei (加藤慎平) signs Shinpei saku (慎平作) and works in Yaita, in Tochigi prefecture. A tachi of his from 2016 was shown at the Heisei no Meitō Meikō-ten exhibition at the Japanese Sword Museum (2019).
At the NBTHK Exhibition of Contemporary Sword Craftsmen (Gendai Tōshoku-ten) he received an effort prize in 2023; the Kanzan Prize in 2024, for a 55.9 cm kodachi; the NBTHK President’s Prize in 2025, for a 21.6 cm tantō; and in 2026 the Kanzan Prize again, in the tantō section, and an effort prize in the tachi and katana section.
Monograph
Katō Shinpei (加藤慎平)
A swordsmith with more than forty years of competitions and a recent record verified at the NBTHK, told with the level of evidence of each fact.
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