{"id":66553,"date":"2025-04-11T12:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samuraimuseum.jp\/shop\/?p=66553"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:47:36","slug":"hosokawa-masayoshi%e7%b4%b0%e5%b7%9d%e6%ad%a3%e7%be%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samuraimuseum.jp\/shop\/hosokawa-masayoshi%e7%b4%b0%e5%b7%9d%e6%ad%a3%e7%be%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosokawa Masayoshi
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Hello, world. Welcome to Samurai Museum Shop. Thank you for finding our website. In this post, we would like to introduce one of the prominent Japanese swordsmiths. We hope you will enjoy reading this post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Masayoshi was born in 1786 in Kanuma, located in today\u2019s Tochigi prefecture, as the son of Hosokawa Ryosuke Masayoshi. At first, Masayoshi used the different character for Yoshi, and he forged blades for the Toda family, who was the feudal load of Utsunomiya, also located in today\u2019s Tochigi prefecture. Later, Masayoshi learned sword-forging techniques under the master, Suishinshi Masahide (\u6c34\u5fc3\u5b50\u6b63\u79c0), one of the most famous swordsmiths in Samurai history. Then, he took over his father\u2019s name as the second-gen Hosokawa Masayoshi, and became an Okakae Kaji for Matsudaira clan of Tsuyama Domain, which ruled Mimasaka no Kuni (today\u2019s Okayama prefecture). <\/span><\/p>\n

Masayoshi moved to a mansion owned by Tsuyama Domain, forging blades for them. Okakaekaji is a swordsmith who exclusively forged blades for a specific clan or domain. Masayoshi often signed Sakuyo Bakkashi, the retainer of the Tsuyama clan of Mimasaka, on his blades, but it is said that he mostly created blades residing in the Edo city for the Matsudaira family. He died in 1858 at the age of 73.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Masayoshi was an extremely skilled swordsmith who was excellent at forging blades with the characteristic of the Bizen sword-forging style (BIZEN DEN) and the Soshu sword-forging style (SOSHUDEN), though he favored copying the Osaka Shinto style in his early years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We hope you enjoyed reading this post. If you are interested in checking his work, we happen to acquire two antique Katana<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/a>signed by him. More information is available by clicking the image below.<\/p>\n

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