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This topic is for our fellow member Big (Peter R) to post his wonderful links that he digs up with a Japanese flavour. Peter, feel free to add your urls here as you find them, and people can comment h

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The 24th generation descendant, Tsunahiro Yamamura, has a company that creates katana, cooking knives, scissors, knives, and so on in Kamakura.  But his son, Takamasa Yamamura, decided to become an opera singer, & is now Head Minister at Myohoji Temple (http://honolulumyohoji.org/profile/). I've met him several times when we've trained at the temple.

Do families still adopt to continue the line? Otherwise, so ends 25 generations of sword makers......kinda' sad.

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The 24th generation descendant, Tsunahiro Yamamura, has a company that creates katana, cooking knives, scissors, knives, and so on in Kamakura.  But his son, Takamasa Yamamura, decided to become an opera singer, & is now Head Minister at Myohoji Temple (http://honolulumyohoji.org/profile/). I've met him several times when we've trained at the temple.

 

Do families still adopt to continue the line? Otherwise, so ends 25 generations of sword makers......kinda' sad.

Horrendously sad. People are their own masters of course... but there is something to be said for lineage and tradition.

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The 24th generation descendant, Tsunahiro Yamamura, has a company that creates katana, cooking knives, scissors, knives, and so on in Kamakura. But his son, Takamasa Yamamura, decided to become an opera singer, & is now Head Minister at Myohoji Temple (http://honolulumyohoji.org/profile/). I've met him several times when we've trained at the temple.

Do families still adopt to continue the line? Otherwise, so ends 25 generations of sword makers......kinda' sad.

Well, if he has an apprentice, adopted or not, this will be the 25th generation I guess. It is very unlikely, I think, that the 24 previous generation are all direct descendants of Masamune. So I think it’s the teaching that is the descendant, not the person.
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