Verified table
| Year | Competition | Result | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | NBTHK new-work exhibition (新作刀展覧会, Shinsakutō Tenrankai) | First entry, 入選 (nyūsen; primary list not found) | AT |
| 2005 | NBTHK new-work exhibition | 努力賞 (Doryokushō; primary list not found) | AT |
| 2007 | 2nd Omamori-gatana Tenrankai (Zen Nihon Tōshōkai) | 6th place, Okayama Superintendent of Education Prize, in the blade division | HD |
| 2007 | The same, mountings division | Listed again as 6th place, Setouchi Superintendent of Education Prize, with the same team: it may be a misprint or a second award | PC |
| 2014 | Omamori-gatana Tenrankai, public vote | 5th place, with 198 votes | HD |
| 2025 | NBTHK 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten), tachi, katana, wakizashi, naginata and yari division | 入選七席 (nyūsen shichiseki), seventh among the ranked selections | HD |
“A string of prizes”? II
In the MEET YOUR ART talk of 2025, the presenter said that “現在まで新作刀展覧会にて受賞を重ねていらっしゃいます” (“to this day he has kept adding prizes at the new-work exhibition”). It is an introductory formula that names no years. On what can be verified, it cannot be said that he has a string of prizes.
Where he does not appear
So as not to oversell him, these are the records consulted in which he is not listed.
| Record | Result | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2022 (NBTHK) | He does not appear. Only a “川島 義之” (probable reading: Kawashima Yoshiyuki), a tsuba metalworker from Shizuoka, is listed: a different person. | HD |
| Catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2023 | He does not appear (same namesake). | HD |
| Catalogue of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2024 | He does not appear (same namesake). | HD |
| Results of the 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2026 | He does not appear. | HD |
| Omamori-gatana Tenrankai: 1st, 3rd to 19th and special exhibition | He does not appear among the prizewinners. | HD |
| NBTHK list of mukansa, 2025 and 2026 | He does not appear: Kawashima is not a mukansa. | HD |
| His NBTHK results from 1997 to 2021 | Not consulted: they are not on the current NBTHK website. | PC |
Active swordsmith of the Zen Nihon Tōshōkai; ranked selection (入選七席, nyūsen shichiseki) at the NBTHK 現代刀職展 (Gendai Tōshokuten) 2025; 努力賞 (Doryokushō) in 2005 according to his own CV.
Other recognition
- Chosen to forge the tachi offered to the Yukie shrine in Osafune (2022–2023), the first forging before that shrine since 1925.
- Invited to the Tokyo press conference that launched the Sanchōmō project (2018).
- Exhibited at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris (2024–2025) and gave a lecture there in 2026.