Ōno Yoshimitsu
大野義光 (Ōno Yoshimitsu)
A Bizen-den smith born in 1948, mukansa since 1987; known for his copies of the tachi Sanchōmō, which was held to be impossible to reproduce.
Profile
Ōno Yoshimitsu was born in 1948 and trained in the Yoshihara forge in Katsushika, Tokyo. The NBTHK made him mukansa in 1987. He holds an intangible cultural property of Katsushika ward, chairs an association for the promotion of Japanese sword culture and has opened forges in Niigata and Okayama. He works in the Bizen manner and excels in jūka-chōji. In 1984 he completed a copy of the Sanchōmō, the Ichimonji tachi once owned by the Uesugi whose temper was considered unrepeatable; it is regarded as his representative work, and he copied it again in 1986 and 2004.
Monograph
Ōno Yoshimitsu (大野義光)
A mukansa swordsmith who has spent his life in pursuit of the chōji of the Kamakura Ichimonji, told with the level of evidence of each fact.
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Notable works
- Copy of the Sanchōmō from 1986, signed Echigo no Kuni Yoshimitsu, with a copy of its mounting.
Rankings
- Mukansa since 1987