Nihonto Club

Born 26 juli 1894 in Ibaraki prefectuur
Passed away in 1970
Familyname: Yoshihara, Surname : Katsuichi
In 1933 he became the first official student at the Nippontō Tanren Denshujo
Student of Kasama Shigetsugu (shi 907)

Signed : Akihiro
Akihiro saku
oite Tokiwamatsu Yoshihara Akihiro saku kore
After 1943 Nobutake
Yoshihara Nobutake
Tokyo Dai ichi Rikugun Zoheisho Yoshihara Nobutake
Yoshihara Kuniiye
Yoshihara Kuniite saku
Yoshihara Kuniiye kitau kore
Musashi kuni jū Yoshihara Kuniiye seitan kore
Kōto jū Yoshihara Kuniiye seitan kore

In 1937 he became teacher at the Kyushu University Kingakubu Nihonto Kenkyujo.
In 1938 he started his own smithy in Nihon So Tanrenjo, in Setagaya, Tokyo
He was appointed by Kurihara Akihide as smith at the Nihonto Gakuin, (Japanese Sword Institute) in Sagamihara-cho, Zama (Sobudai), Kanagawa Prefecture.
He also beacme instructor at the Tokiwamatsu Tanren Kenkyu Jo in Shibuya, Tokyo on the estate of Toyama Mitsuru, afterna Shigetsugu had left

Hij works in Bizen and Sōshū den, he also makes utushi mono of Kiyomaro.
He was appointed Rikugun Jumei Tosho during the war.
In 1943 Kuniie was appointed as the smith instructor of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Tokyo Dai Ichi Rikugun Zoheisho, the militairy arsenal in Akabane, Tokyo.
From 1945 till 1953 he was not actice as a swordsmith. In 1953 Kuniie he started again as a swordsmith and got a licent as swordsmith, from that time on he began to teach his students the making of the Nihonto