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His life
- 1980. Born in Ōmuta, in Fukuoka prefecture.
- April 1999. Becomes an apprentice to Kawachi Kunihira (河内國平), in Nara.
- October 2003. Receives his smith’s licence from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, according to his family. Another, secondary source gives 2005.
- September 2004. Returns to Fukuoka and forges on his own.
- 2006. In his first NBTHK competition he wins both a Doryokushō (努力賞) and the Shinjinshō (新人賞), the prize for newcomers.
- 2018. Engraves signatures in public with Kimura Kanemitsu in Kitakyūshū, on three days of the Zen Nihon Tōshōkai’s Japanese Sword Day.
- February 2020. Sets up in Sasebo, with two other smiths, the Zen Nihon Tōshōkai’s 14th omamori-gatana (お守り刀, protective swords) exhibition.
- September 2024. Gives a gallery talk at the Sasebo art centre with Kimura Kanemitsu, about their works and their craft.
- July to September 2025. Exhibits at 刀匠展 (Tōshō-ten) 九州の技と美 (Kyūshū no waza to bi, “Swordsmiths: the skill and beauty of Kyūshū”), in the garden of Kokura castle.
A family of Miike smiths
According to the history his family tells, the Komiya house of Ōmuta was founded as a sword forge in 1786; its smiths worked for the Yanagawa clan, gave up swords when carrying them was banned and went back to forging them in 1935. Their model is Miike Tenta Mitsuyo (三池典太光世).
Several Komiya forge in the house today: his grandfather Kuniharu (國治, 1929–2020), his father Yasukimitsu (安氣光, born in 1956) and his uncle Sōyōmitsu (早陽光, born in 1959), who signs 四郎國光 (Shirō Kunimitsu). His brother Komiya Mitsutoshi (小宮光敏) is a polisher. Komiya Sōyōmitsu, Komiya Yasukimitsu and Komiya Mitsutoshi, all from Fukuoka, also appear in the NBTHK lists.
Today
He says himself that in Miike he forges blades for looking at and also for iaidō and tameshigiri. In April 2026, on receiving the Yūshūshō niseki, he wrote that he had been aiming for a special prize right after the 2025 one and that he would try again the following year.
