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Recognition as a swordsmith

HAOKA, Yoshihito Swordsmith - Season 1-3 (日本語は英語の後に続きます)

 
Yoshihara Family (center Yoshindo Yoshihara(吉原義人), in his left Akira, his grandson holding late Yoshikazu’s photo(吉原義一) and in his right Kuniie(吉原国家) and Yoshihito Haoka(羽岡義仁)

 

 

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Why Haoka became a swordsmith

HAOKA, Yoshihito Swordsmith - Season 1-2 (日本語は英語の後に続きます)

 

Haoka used to make wooden swords and played with them in his childhood, and he became interested in Japanese swords when he was in elementary school. He got a strong impression on the main character Ryo, who was making a Japanese sword, in the popular anime manga; “Kochikame - こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所”

 

 

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HAOKA, Yoshihito(羽岡義仁)

Biography (生い立ち)- JP will follow EN

 
Date of Birth 1989 in Tokyo
Master - YOSHIHARA, Yoshindo, Yoshikazu & Kuniie(吉原義人・義一・國家)
The swordsmith license authorization in 2013.
 
 
6 Young Japanese Swordsmiths Profiles

6 swordsmiths + EnArtEx = Seven Samurai

 
EnArtEx supports these six young modern swordsmiths.  We will further introduce each of them with more details in this series.  In the future, we plan to offer their custom order sword, a knife, a name plate and etc. what they make through our EC site~~
 
 
Mitsuhide(Kentaro Inada) Future Challenge

HigoZogan

 

I asked Mitushide(Kentaro Inada) craftsman about his aspirations for his future activities.

In the short term, he would like to shorten the lead time for his order production, which has been waiting for two years, and increase the number of customers and fans as well as improve his recognition.....

 

 

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