Yamashiro no Kami Hidetoki

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Yamashiro no Kami Hidetoki (山城守秀辰) is the signature, with the honorary title of Yamashiro no Kami, of one or several smiths of the shintō period; the signature does not say to which generation each blade corresponds. In the Edo-period wazamono list, which classifies smiths by the cutting ability of their blades, the first of this name (初代, shodai) appears in the wazamono grade. Tomita Kiyama records a Yamashiro no Kami Hidetoki of Edo, without saying of which generation, in the classification of shintō smiths he published in 1935 in his Nihontō Jiten, shintō-hen. A blade with this signature is placed in Mino and another in Settsu. Beyond this, little is known of those who used it.