THE KATANA SWORD DIARIES

considering the fact that There exists a legend that it had been a swordsmith named Amakuni who very first signed the tang of a sword, he is typically viewed as the founder and also the oldest faculty. In 1719, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the 8th shogun on the Tokugawa shogunate, purchased Hon'ami Kōchū, who was an authority of sword appraisal, to docum