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John A Stuart

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Hi All, I was doing a quick look see for info on the 'Hizen no Kuni Ju Nobuyoshi' mei in the preceeding post and came upon something that surprised me. Amongst the Nobuyoshi cited in the Swordsmith Database was a smith that signed 'Nobuyoshi Saku' and as 'California no Kuni Nobuyoshi'. This is a fellow who went to Japan in 1938 and died in 1997 that became a Showa era smith. Real name Keith Austen. I found this amazing and quite a surprise. John

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Hi All, I was doing a quick look see for info on the 'Hizen no Kuni Ju Nobuyoshi' mei in the preceeding post and came upon something that surprised me. Amongst the Nobuyoshi cited in the Swordsmith Database was a smith that signed 'Nobuyoshi Saku' and as 'California no Kuni Nobuyoshi'. This is a fellow who went to Japan in 1938 and died in 1997 that became a Showa era smith. Real name Keith Austen. I found this amazing and quite a surprise. John

 

AFAIK he was the only Gaijin to have been patented as nihonto smith

by Japanese authorities. There is a good article about him somewhere in my HD but I'm at work now..

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