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steps to preserve the ancient traditions in this art. His actions were
steps to preserve the ancient traditions in this art. His actions were
a mere necessity.
a mere necessity.
With no market for swords most smiths had to find some other source of
income leaving the production of blades. A lot of knowledge has been lost here, as already happened before. While the growing militarism colonial wars once again made
swords necessary, most of these were mass-produced in factories and so can't
be considered NihonTo.The period from 1895 to 1925 was an harsh one for the
Japanese sword, and most of the tatara were lost, as well as tradictions
and schools.
With a strong army at power and the nationalism pushing ofr national proudness
the Japan in the 1930’s saw a brief re-born of traditional sword manufacturers, and the '''Yasukuni Jinja''' Tatara is surely the best of this period.
The best swords made in this period are from Yasukuni, and the school
produced some good smith. All of the "Yasukuni smiths" have their name
beginning with the "Yasu" Kanji.
During the WWII the steel was in short supply and very few good blades
were produced.
