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Tatsuyoshi

Submitted by glebec on Sat, 2014-02-15 06:57
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Enomoto Tatsuyoshi
IDTAT15x
NameTatsuyoshi
ProvinceShizuoka
Other ResidenceNagaizumi City, signed as Izu province
Start EraShōwa (1926-1989)
End EraHeisei (1989-present)
Active Period1975-2013
SchoolOsaka Gassan
FatherSadayoshi

Source Rating Reference/Page
OtherNEWGEN2002-155
Signatures:
伊豆住竜義作
izu jū tatsuyoshi saku

Biography and lineage

1951–2013. Birth name Enomoto Eiichiro. Son of Enomoto Sadayoshi, older brother of Enomoto Sadahito; both began training at a young age. Used an early gō of 貞義 Sadayoshi (different -yoshi from his father). Licensed in 1975. Won the NBTHK Effort and Excellence awards. Former President of the Tokai Branch of the National Association of Swordmakers.

Workmanship and style

Primarily Sōshu-den, with nie-deki hamon in notare or midare. Itame hada with chikei and ji-nie. Kobuse and san-mai construction. Applies extra care to the finishing of the nakago and quality of the meibun.
#1Submitted by glebec on Sat, 2014-02-15 11:01.

First smith added

There are not many modern (or even WWII) smiths represented so far. Trying out the smith adding process with this one.

First "glitch:" signed as Izu province, but technically lived in Nagaizumi City (Shizuoka) as Izu was no longer official by his time. What should be put into the Province field: Izu (as in his mei) or Shizuoka (which is more technically accurate)?

Second question: with no Hawley ID, I made this one up (based on the next-highest ID of TAT14). Is this the approach you want us to take?
#2Submitted by kazarena on Sat, 2014-02-15 12:26.

Well done

Gabriel,

  1. Yes, Shizuoka is the correct choice here: this is why the list of options contains both provinces (for pre-Gendai smiths) and prefectures (for modern smiths).

  2. Hawley ID - yes, take the next highest ID, and (this is my recent idea) add x in the end. So it will be TAT15x

  3. I will update the reference later today. You are using a book which is not in the Bibliography - I'll show you how to add it and then we can update the reference itself.

  4. Current convention is that rōmaji signatures are all lower-case.

Other than that, it's a great start, keep it coming! Gendai smiths are definitely under-represented. I have tons of material, but my sweet spot is early Koto and there's only so much I was able to do... :-)

Stan
#3Submitted by glebec on Sat, 2014-02-15 20:06.

Thanks

  1. In that case I will edit the father to also be from Shizuoka (currently listed as Izu).

  2. Appended -x to the ID (I agree this is a good idea).

  3. OK, I took a cursory look to see if I could add it to the bibliography but didn't see how to, so I'll look forward to your demonstration/instruction.

  4. Reformatted the signature to all lower-case. Semantically speaking I would argue that proper nouns should be capitalized as it improves comprehension / parsing, but it is certainly no major concern and I am all for stylistic standardization / cohesiveness.
#4Submitted by kazarena on Sat, 2014-02-15 23:54.

Bibliography entry

Ok, to create a new bibliography entry (you need it to add references to swordsmith records, you need to:

  • Go to http://nihontoclub.com/node/add/biblio
  • Fill out the book description, see http://nihontoclub.com/node/17449 for example
  • Don't forget to set a citation code - this one can then be used for quotes and references. In your case I put NEWGEN2002 as the new code (all upper-case, not dashed, reasonably short but unlikely to clash with other publications).