刀匠の最上位である、無鑑査刀匠の中でも上位無鑑査刀匠として定評があり、次期人間国宝と衆目を集めた宗勉(そうつとむ)。

清冽にして秀麗な中に、日本刀の原点である真の切れ味を追及した刀匠としても有名。

直心影流十七代宗家、秋吉博光師と長い年月、長期にわたり最高の切れ味を求め日本刀の作刀に尽力されたと聞いている。そして、抜刀真剣、試し切りの第一人者とされる“平成の侍”町井薫が推薦する刀匠の一人でもある。

刀の専門家ではないので、難しいことはわからないが、無鑑査刀匠のものを含め、今まで見てきた“おそらく造り”の中で一番の傑作と思う。刀姿のバランスといい、冴え、力強さ、働き、どこを見ても名人の名に相応しい高雅な香りが漂っている。

The without audition swordsmith who is the top of the swordsmith.

He have a good reputation as a high-ranking without audition swordsmith in that.

Tsutomu So who collected next living national treasure and public attention.

It is famous as the beautiful swordsmith who investigated the true sharpness that is the origin of the Japanese sword inside.

I hear the best sharpness for Jikisinnksgeryu17dai-souke(an earnest mind shadow style 17s head family), Rev. Hiromitsu Akiyoshi and long time, a long term when made an effort for the making a sword of the request Japanese sword. And an unsheathed sword is earnest and is the one of the swordsmith whom "samurai Kaoru Machii of the Heisei" considered to be the first person of the test of recommends it to.

Because it is not the expert of the sword, I do not understand the difficult thing. However, including the work of the without audition swordsmith, I think it to be the first masterpiece in "Osoraku-zukuri" that I looked so far.

Even if the balance dressed in the sword is good and looks at clearness, strength, work, wherever, the elegant fragrance appropriate for the name of the expert drifts