assastince please

[jeeplover]

i have looked at all the past post on this smith and it still does not tell me much.

[runagmc]

Alot of times when the master of a forge or school retires or dies, he passed his name down to the person who is to take over the top spot. This can happen over and over for generations.

[jeeplover]

info found on smith

KANEMICHI was a contemporary (gendai) smith and worked from Showa period onwards as an army smith (Rikugun Jumei Toshi). He was student of Kojima Katsumasa and Watanabe Kanenaga.His personal name was Kojima Tokijiiro. He was born in Meiji 35th year, 7th month (1902). His early mei was Kanetoki but he later changed it to Kanemichi and had many students.Kanemichi is listed as on of the most skilled Mino gendai smiths. There are four of them being rated as 2 million Yen in Toko Taikan with Kanemichi being one of them.

Two million Yen is also the highest rating given to the two very best Yasukuni jinja smiths by Tokunou Kazuo. None of the Minatogawa jinja smiths received ratings as high as this.

He is also listed in the Gendai Toko Meikan (as GTM-137), in Hawley’s (as KAN-1401, 1392) and in John Slough’s “An Oshigata Book of Modern Japanese Swordsmiths 1868-1945” pages 46-48 In the 1941 sword exhibition of contemporary swordsmiths Kanemichi achieved the Special Honor Noted Seat. Kanemichi made Medium to High Grade Showato and High to Superior Grade Gendaito