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KOREKAZU (是一), 7 th gen., Ansei (安政, 1854-1860), Musashi – “Shichidai-me Ishidō Korekazu saku” (七代目石堂是一作, “made by the 7 th gen. Ishidō Korekazu”), “Fujiwara Korekazu” (藤原是一), “Korekazu saku” (是一作), “Ishidō Fujiwara Korekazu kore o saku” (石堂藤原是一作之), “Ishidō Unjusai Korekazu” (石堂運寿斎 是一), “Ryūsensai Ishidō Korekazu” (龍泉斎石堂是一), “Ishidō Unju Korekazu seitan kore o tsukuru” (石堂運寿是 一精鍛造之, “carefully forged by Ishidō Unju Korekazu”), real name Kawakami Seitarō (川上政太郎, the first name also reads Masatarō), he also bore the first name Sukezaburō (助三郎), he was born on the 24th day of the first month Bunsei three (文政, 1820) as second son of Chōunsai Tsunatoshi (長運斎綱俊), another tradition says that he was the nephew of Tsunatoshi, later he was adopted by the 6th gen. Korekazu and took over the family in the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Tenpō (天保, 1841), he lived in Kita-Shinmonzen (北新門前) in Edo´s Azabu district (麻布), first he used the gō Unjusai (運寿斎) but changed in the second year of Meiji (1869) to Ryūsensai (龍泉斎), he died on the 24th day of the eleventh month Meiji 24 (1891) at the age of 72, the 7th gen. Korekazu became famous for reviving the Ishidō-Bizen style and he trained many students, he also forged blades for the Ise Shrine and the Edo city magistrate Tōyama Saemon no Jō Kagemoto (遠山左衛門尉景元, 1793-1855), his blades have a rather shallow sori, a relative high shinogi, a narrow shinogi-ji, and a somewhat larger kissaki, the jigane is a dense ko-mokume which tends to muji, also a komokume mixed with ō-hada and sometimes also a chikei-laden jihada in the style of Kiyomaro (清麿) is found, in his early years he applied a chōji-midare with compact nioiguchi similar to Tsunatoshi, later he changed to a chōji-midare with plenty of ko-nie and many hataraki, sometimes he also worked in the Sōshū tradition, the bōshi is ko-maru or midare-komi, at blades in Sōshū tradition we find a midare-komi with hakikake and much nie, some works show elaborate horimono, the stout but carefully finished tang has a kurijiri, sometimes also a kijimono-gata is found, the yasurime are ō-sujikai with keshō whereas every file stroke was added by its own, the shōgun granted him the permission to carve an Aoi crest to his tangs, we know blades which were made by using magnetic iron ore (beitetsu or mochitetsu, 餅鉄) from Morioka (盛岡), magnetic iron ore is found in spherical shape for example in rivers and was used since oldest times for sword forging, jōjō-saku

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