UnhappySakura

Thank you! It was on the back of my mind, I’m probably going to contact the buyers to see if I can buy back the Nihonto!

Hi! This is an update to my previous post. This is a thank you to all the amazing people in the message board who contributed to helping me find more about my heritage. As a token of my appreciation I provided sword making in action photos (including his face) below. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I’ll update you guys (on this post probably in 2 weeks) if I get more photos of him/more photos of swords created.

Hi thank you so much for helping me learn more about him. As you can tell by the tags he passed away in the 2000s sadly. Here’s everything compiled, any more info is appreciated! Could you tell me if he made decent quality swords? Just wondering, since he was a sword smith for only ~30years. Credit to Moriyama Koichi, Ray Singer, Bugyotsuji, and many more people! Do you guys want to see some vintage photos of him in action, I have a photo of his workshop and him making some swords if anyone is interested! Shimizu Seiya (清水精也) was born in 1947. He became a pupil of Sakai Ikkansai Shigemasa (酒井一貫斎繁政) in 1969. And he was officially approved to make swords in 1974. His smith name is Taikei (大慶), and the name also uses other kanji 泰慶. -Nobody/Moriyama Koichi (Credit to Markus Sesko for the bio below.) TAIKEI (大慶), Heisei (平成, 1989- ), Niigata – “Echigo no Kuni Taikei saku” (越後国大慶作), “Muramatsu Ikkansai Taikei” (邑松一貫斎大慶), “Echigo no Kuni Ikkansai Taikei saku” (越後国一貫斎大慶作), real name Shimizu Seiya (清水精也), gō Ikkansai (一貫斎), he also works as horimono artist -Ray Singer

Thank you so much, I believe that’s his pen-name showed on book last image! Again, thank you!

Thank you for the reply! I sadly don’t have any tang photos of the one in family possession as it’s overseas. I’ve provided more images if that helps. Again, thank you!

Thank you for the kind words!

Hi, my great uncle is a Japanese full fledged sword smith and I’ve been trying to learn more about him, any help, education, etc… is appreciated and needed. Here is the link to the eshop that supposedly has his sword: https://www.e-sword....0810_1138syousai.htm