Japan's Top Ten Forging Knives

Famous Japanese swordsmen include Yoshihara Jun, Kato Kiyoshi, Akira Muhara, Tian Yangcheng and Fu Hao:

1, Yoshihara Yoshihara is a contemporary famous Japanese knife maker, a holder of intangible culture in Tokyo, and is known as the "national treasure on earth". At the age of 22, Mr. Yoshihara was recognized as the youngest knife maker by the Japanese cultural department. At the age of 39, he won the highest honor among knife makers-unsupervised. His mountain city works are collected by the Metropolitan Museum and the Boston Art Museum.

2. Kato Kiyoshi 1944 was born in a family of knife makers, and it has been 46 years since the first forging stage. Kato Kiyoshi 1977 started to make hand-made customized tools under the influence of Juxiu, a tool shop in Ginza. It is said that the original knife was a water drop Damascus steel knife.

Master Mu Yuanming is the only surviving Yugang Smelter. The Yueshan family to which Master Akira Muhara belongs is a knife-making family in Osaka. The five generations of grandparents and grandchildren have continuously dominated the Japanese forging knife industry. Many of them are manufacturers of imperial knives of the emperor, and they have the title of "national treasures on earth", which is the highest honor of artists.

At the age of 4.22, Tian Yang was recognized as the youngest knife worker by the cultural department. At the age of 39, he was nominated three times for Excalibur of Yi Shi in the Palace. Makita Yoyo is the only Japanese knife maker whose works are collected by the United States in the Boston Museum, and is also the highest-level art knife club in the world.

5. As a famous Japanese swordsman, Fuhao Sakaguchi, a sword maker, was recognized as the designated holder of intangible cultural wealth in Tokyo and was good at casting short knives. The short knives in the hands of Takeda Shingen and Teru Shimada Zhu, the famous Japanese Warring States, were once cast by Fu Hao Sakou. This kind of knife is characterized by cutting first, accounting for more than half of the blade.