Eight prizes at the NBTHK technical competition, the Masamune at the first edition of the competition for new swords and the title of Living National Treasure in 1981.
Hokkoku Culture Prize; intangible cultural property of the city
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1965
1st 新作名刀展 (Shinsaku Meitōten), NBTHK
正宗賞 (Masamune-shō), Masamune Prize, and the honorary president’s prize
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1966
2nd Shinsaku Meitōten
Masamune-shō and the Mainichi newspaper prize
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1966 or 1967
Shinsaku Meitōten
Mukansa (無鑑査, mukansa) and juror: 1966 according to the city of Hakusan and the Ishikawa Prefecture archive; 1967 according to Tōbunken
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1967
Ishikawa Prefecture
Intangible cultural property of the prefecture
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1972
NBTHK
薫山賞 (Kunzanshō), in its first edition, which also gave it to Amata Akitsugu (天田昭次)
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1974
10th Shinsaku Meitōten
Masamune-shō, the third
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1981
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Living National Treasure (重要無形文化財保持者, jūyō mukei bunkazai hojisha): on 20 April according to the city of Hakusan, on 3 April according to the Japanese Wikipedia
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1984
Government of Japan
紫綬褒章 (shiju hōshō), Medal with Purple Ribbon
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1992
Chūnichi newspaper
45th Chūnichi Culture Prize
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1993
Government of Japan
勲四等旭日小綬章 (kun-yontō Kyokujitsu Shōjushō), Order of the Rising Sun, Fourth Class, Gold Rays with Rosette