Yamamoto Sukenaga
山本祐永 (Yamamoto Sukenaga)
A smith from Osafune, in Okayama prefecture, who runs a forge that trains apprentices and makes its own tamahagane.
Profile
Yamamoto Sukenaga (山本祐永) works in Osafune, in Okayama prefecture, and has spent more than thirty years at the forge. He runs a workshop where he trains apprentices and where the steel itself, the tamahagane, is made.
Monograph
Yamamoto Sukenaga (山本祐永)
Who he is, in a quick profile, and what is known and what is not.
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