A diploma on yellow paper with a floral border and vertical text in kanji, with a red seal.

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Takamatsu-no-miya · mukansa

Prizes

Sixteen years of prizes at the NBTHK Shinsaku Meitōten, from his debut in 1990 to the rank of mukansa in 2006. The official lists of those years are not online: except for the 2005 one, the prizes are attributed.

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Year by year

YearCompetitionPrizeWork
1990新作名刀展 (Shinsaku Meitōten), NBTHKNewcomer’s prize (新人賞, shinjinshō) and prize of excellence (優秀賞, yūshūshō), on his debut—
1991–1994Shinsaku Meitōten優秀賞 (yūshūshō), every year—
1995–1996Shinsaku Meitōten努力賞 (doryokushō)—
1997Shinsaku MeitōtenPrize of the president of the 全日本刀匠会 (Zen Nihon Tōshōkai)—
1998Shinsaku MeitōtenPrize of the honorary president (名誉会長賞, meiyo kaichōshō)—
1999Shinsaku Meitōten優秀賞 (yūshūshō)—
2000Shinsaku MeitōtenNBTHK president’s prize (会長賞, kaichōshō), with a katana; 努力賞 (doryokushō) with a tantōKatana; tantō
2001Shinsaku MeitōtenPrize of the Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁長官賞, Bunkachō chōkan shō)Katana
2002 and 2003Shinsaku Meitōten名誉会長賞 (meiyo kaichōshō)—
2004Shinsaku Meitōten文化庁長官賞 (Bunkachō chōkan shō)—
2005Shinsaku MeitōtenTakamatsu-no-miya Prize (高松宮賞, Takamatsunomiya-shō)Katana 筑州住宗昌親作 (Chikushū jū Sō Masachika saku), February 2005
20051st exhibition of protective swords (お守り刀展覧会, omamori-gatana tenrankai)Third place (敢闘賞, kantōshō)—
2006NBTHKMukansa (無鑑査, mukansa)—
20149th exhibition of protective swordsFifth place, prize of the director of the Bizen Osafune Sword Museum—
201510th exhibition of protective swordsFourth place, prize of the Setouchi superintendent of education—
201611th exhibition of protective swordsSeventh place, prize of the Sanyo Shimbun newspaper—