Akitsugu Amata

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Akitsugu Amata ( Japanese 天 田 昭 次 , Amata Akitsugu , actually: Seiichi Amata ( 天 田 誠 一 , Amata Seiichi ); * August 4, 1927 in Niigata Prefecture ; † June 26, 2013 ) was a Japanese swordsmith. It was declared on June 6, 1997 as a living national treasure for the important intangible cultural asset "swordsmithing".

Amata learned the trade from his father Sadayoshi, who died in 1937. Amata made swords in the Sōshū tradition of the late Kamakura period , for which he was awarded the Masamune Prize ( 正宗 賞 ) in 1977 , named after the swordsmith Masamune . In 1990 he became chairman of the "All-Japanese Swordsmiths Association " ( 全 日本 刀匠 会 , Zennihon Tōshōkai ).

Amata died of pneumonia in July 2013 at the age of 85.

literature

  • 天 田 昭 次 作品 集 (Amata Akitsugu sakuhinshū): 鉄 と 日本 刀 の 五 〇 年 / Publisher: 慶 友 社, Tōkyō: Keiyūsha, Heisei 17 (2005), ISBN 978-4-87449-236-9 .
  • 土 子民 夫: 日本 刀 21 世紀 へ の 挑 戦 ("Japanese Swordsmith" English translation), Kodansha International, 2002, page 200, ISBN 978-4-7700-2854-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In memoriam: Those we lost in 2013. Nihon Keizai Shimbun , December 28, 2013, archived from the original on October 18, 2017 ; accessed on March 12, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ 天 田 昭 次 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 12, 2015 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 刀 剣 情報 . Tsuruginoya, 2007, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 12, 2015 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ 天 田 昭 次 氏 が 死去 人間 国宝 の 刀匠 . Nihon Keizai Shimbun , June 27, 2013, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 12, 2015 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Amata, Akitsugu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 天 田 昭 次 (Japanese); Amata Seiichi (real name); 天 田 誠 一 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese swordsmith and living national treasure
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Niigata prefecture
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 2013