Tanto Made by Kiyokane mounted in Shirasaya
Signed Tsutsui Kiyokane. Korewo Kitaeru
Made to the order of Ando Hiroshi, Blade Tempered by Ando Hiroshi in December 31st year of Showa
KIYOKANE (清兼), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Aichi – “Mikawa no Kuni Okazaki-jū
Tachibana Kiyokane” (三河国岡崎住橘清兼), “Suirosai Tachibana Kiyokane” (椎魯斎橘
清兼), “Ryūjōshi Kiyokane” (龍城子清兼), real name Tsutsui Seiichi (筒井清一), gō Suirosai
(椎魯斎) and Ryūjōshi (龍城子), born March 25th 1907, his family was since their 1
st gen. Tsutsui
Ichirōbei Kiyokane (筒井市郎兵衛清兼) successively working for the Okazaki fief (岡崎藩) of
Mikawa proince, he studied under Kurihawa Akihide (栗原昭秀) and worked as rikugun-jumei-tōshō, he lived in Aichi´s
Nagakute (長久手), jōkō no retsu (Akihide), Third Seat at the 6th Shinsaku Nihontō Denrankai (新作日本刀展覧会,
1941)
