Hirata Hikozo (1590? – 1635) is one of the most famous Higo craftsmen, also a master of the first generations of Jingo and Kanshiro. He worked under the patronage of Hosokawa Sansai, an important samurai and tea ceremony master, who was a disciple of Sen

Private collection Myōchin Muneakira is considered the best skilled armor maker of Japan during the Edo period. At the age of 12, he began his apprenticeship with Munesuke, his uncle, focusing on the complex skill of iron embossing (uchidashi), where Munesuke himself had achieved an