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- His father’s watchword was 良い地金を造れ (yoi jigane o tsukure, “make good steel”), and he has tried to make his own steel.
- He works above all in the Sōshū tradition. His models are the wave temper line (濤瀾乱刃, tōran midareba) of 津田越前守助広 (Tsuda Echizen no Kami Sukehiro), 源清麿 (Minamoto Kiyomaro) and the old 筑州住左 (Chikushū jū Sa).
- His most celebrated katana, the one of the 2005 Takamatsu-no-miya Prize, was a tribute to Sukehiro. A katana from 1998 in ō-osoraku-zukuri form (大おそらく造り, ō-osoraku-zukuri), with a gunome-midare hamon, is known.
In the NBTHK catalogue
The NBTHK catalogue 平成の名刀・名工展 (Heisei no Meitō Meikōten) (2019) exhibits his katana signed 筑州住宗昌親作 (Chikushū jū Sō Masachika saku), from February 2008: 74.2 cm, sori of 1.6 cm, polished by 藤本光豊 (Fujimoto Mitsutoyo) and with a habaki by 松永国保 (Matsunaga Kuniyasu).
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The point of the katana of the 2005 Takamatsu-no-miya Prize. Photo: dealer in Japan 
Its tang, signed 筑州住宗昌親作 (Chikushū jū Sō Masachika saku) and dated February 2005. Photo: dealer in Japan 
The diploma of the Takamatsu-no-miya Prize (高松宮賞, Takamatsunomiya-shō), of June 2005. Photo: dealer in Japan 
The poster of the 2006 Shinsaku Meitōten, at the Japanese Sword Museum, with a katana. Photo: dealer in Japan 
A katana of his, photographed in 2025. Photo: dealer in Japan 
At the forge. The photo is attributed to Sō Masachika from the context in which it was published. Photo: dealer in Japan