akihisa

Updated: May 14, 2025

In the Muromachi period alone we have such names as Aoki Kaneiye, Myochin Nobuiye, Umetada Akihisa and others. Armour making also was carried to a point of high achievement during the epoch, especially by Nobuiye. * *Chamberlain in Things Japanese says: "Japanese swords excel even the vaunted products of Damascus and Toledo.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era