Looking info about the smith Oguri Motoshige 小栗基重

[E_Arroyes]

Hi fellows, I am looking for information about this smith, everything I found on the internet is below. I guess he is no longer active, I would appreciate it if someone has images of his works, they could post them in this thread. Thank you very much to everyone.

 

"The smith Oguri MOTOSHIGE 小栗基重 was born in 1953, Shuchi-gun, Shizuoka-pref,real name Tatsumi 辰巳. He started the practice in 1976 under Kita SADAHIRO 喜多貞寬 who was an senior fellow of the living National Treasure 2nd Gassan Sadaichi 月山貞一 to study sword making. In 1983 in order to obtain the superb technique of sword carving he became a pupil of Yanagimura Senju 柳村仙寿 who is designated as being an important cultural treasure of Okayama-pref,as well as being qualified as Mukansa 無鑑査 who is not submitted to the jury for appraisal classification.
In 1989, he started to display his swords in the Contemporary Swords and Artwork's in The Japanese Sword Museum and has been chosen for the Nyusen awarded as much as 15 times in sword category and 9 times in carving category."

 

Text from Sanmei.

 

Some of his works that I have been able to find:

 

 

 

[Ray Singer]

Oguri Motoshige attended a show here in the US. I remember studying and enjoying examples of his work at the event. 

 

 

[E_Arroyes]

5 minutes ago, Ray Singer said:

Oguri Motoshige attended a show here in the US. I remember studying and enjoying examples of his work at the event. 

 

 

Thanks Ray, I had already read this post, do you have any information on whether it is still active?

[Ray Singer]

Unfortunately I do not know Emilio. Chris (the Minneapolis show runner connected with Motoshige) runs the discussion group below on Facebook. You may want to ask him directly there. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1728933930663768/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT

[E_Arroyes]

37 minutes ago, Ray Singer said:

Unfortunately I do know know Emilio. Chris (the Minneapolis show runner connected with Motoshige) runs the discussion group below on Facebook. You may want to ask him directly there. 

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1728933930663768/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT

Done, thank you as always Ray.

[YourBabyBjornBorg]

Saw this when I was looking for more work of this swordsmith whom I learned just today, and he is really pretty good! No wonder coming from a student of Senju, of course. 

 

Sorry to bump up an old post like this, I tried to look for rules prohibiting such behavior in the NMB but failed orz

Also saw some of his swords without Horimono but still pretty good and Soshu on X by Heiseimeitokai san, not sure if I should repost them, though......