Darcy post re Juyo criteria

[RichardP]

Hello All—

I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to locate an old post of Darcy’s where he discussed Juyo standards.  
I **think** I remember a post where Darcy stated that in addition to the competitive aspect where candidates in any particular Juyo session are judged against each other, each candidate is also judged against the entire known body of that smith’s work.  In other words, it’s not enough for this Kiyomaro to shine against all the other shinshinto swords submitted this session if it’s to be awarded Juyo, it also needs to objectively rank among the top X% of the body of all known Kiyomaro swords…  

Am I remembering this correctly?  If so, could someone kindly point me to that post?  Thank you!!

 

[Scogg]

I think this is what you’re thinking of. It’s a web archive article, so scroll down a little for the content. 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20201022000337/https://blog.yuhindo.com/hozon-is-a-test-juyo-is-a-competition/

 

For more Darcy artcles, Ray Singer generously put this together on his site, see below:

https://swordsofjapan.com/nihonto-library/darcy-brockbank-articles/

Hope this is what you’re looking for,

-Sam 

[RichardP]

Thank you Sam!