Tairyūsai Sōkan
泰龍斎宗寛 (Tairyūsai Sōkan)
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According to the Japanese Wikipedia, a pupil of Koyama Munetsugu, the smith born in Shirakawa (Mutsu) who worked in Edo in the 19th century; according to Sesko, he signed in reisho script from 1857.
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Tairyūsai Sōkan (泰龍斎宗寛) was a pupil of Koyama Munetsugu (固山宗次), born in 1803 in Shirakawa, in Mutsu province, who passed through Kuwana and worked in Edo. Munetsugu excelled in the Bizen and Mino styles, and a hallmark of his blades is that the edge never carries coarse nie (ara-nie). Sōkan's name appears among his pupils, together with that of Tomono Yoshikuni (友野義国). According to Markus Sesko, Sōkan signed in reisho script (隷書体, reishotai) from 1857 and passed the habit on to his son, the engraver Tairyūshi Hirotsugu (泰龍子寛次), and to his pupil Issensai Hiroshige (一専斎寛重). The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, holds a katana of his dated 1866.
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