Matsuda Tsuguyasu

松田次泰 (Matsuda Tsuguyasu)

A smith born in 1948, made mukansa by the NBTHK in 2010.

A tachi in its black and red mounting hanging from a leather hanger, above the bare, deeply curved blade resting on purple stands.
Rama, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matsuda Tsuguyasu was born in 1948. The NBTHK made him mukansa in 2010, the rank that exempts a smith from the jury in its annual contest of new swords.

Monograph

Matsuda Tsuguyasu (松田次泰) A swordsmith of Chiba who has spent more than thirty years in pursuit of the early Kamakura sword, told with the level of evidence of each fact. Read the monograph

Rankings

  • Mukansa since 2010

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