| While the Goto, Hirata, Yoshioka and Ito schools, they were employed by the Tokugawa Shogunate, valued formality and placed importance on the privileged classes, the Nara school was popular with the general public. By honing their skills with free subject matter and new techniques such as Katakiri-bori and Shishiai-bori, they gained popularity among the masses, Bringing the Nrasa-sansaku (Nara Tosshinaga, Sugiura Joi and Tsuchiya Yasuchika) and nurturing numerous schools such as the Hamano school, and developing into the largest school in the world of metalwork. Nara Munetoshi [奈良宗利], who created this fuchi-kashira, was a Nara school metalworker from the late Edo period who specialized in tsuba and fuchi-kashira swords with Taka-bori engraved landscape designs. It passed the Hozon Tosogu shinsa in 2000. |
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