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Senoo

Submitted by kazarena on Wed, 2007-06-20 22:12
妹尾
Province:Bitchū
Start Era:Genryaku (1184-1185)

Description:

(pronounced 'seh-no-oh').

Senoo is also sometimes written as 瀬尾. Founded by Aoe Noritaka 青江則高.

Smiths

Namesort icon Kanji Generation Start Era Teacher Ref
Yasuie [YAS116] 安家 Shōwa (1312-1317)
NMK-1045-13
SJS-730
Yoshiie [YOS179] 吉家 Shōchū (1324-1326) NMK-1132-3

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#1Submitted by kazarena on Mon, 2013-05-06 15:39.

Tachi-mei

Sesko mentions that smiths of Senoo line signed their tachi with tachi-mei [1] (p. 496).

References

  1. Citekey SESKO2012_INDEX not found
#2Submitted by kazarena on Mon, 2013-05-06 23:46.

Yasumitsu from Senoo

Sesko also listed Yasumitsu 安光 from Engen era who signed 備州妹尾安光作 (see SESKO2012_INDEX-840). I wasn't able to find any other references to this smith.