Kawasaki Akihira

川﨑晶平 (Kawasaki Akihira)

A smith from Saitama prefecture, a pupil of Miyairi Kozaemon Yukihira; third prize at the Reiwa no Meitō Meikō-ten.

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Kawasaki Akihira (川﨑晶平) works in Saitama prefecture and trained with Miyairi Kozaemon Yukihira. A 76.7 cm katana of his from 2014 was shown at the Heisei no Meitō Meikō-ten exhibition at the Japanese Sword Museum (2019), and at the Reiwa no Meitō Meikō-ten at the Japanese Sword Museum he won a prize in third place in the forging section.

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