NAGAHIRO (永弘), Keiō (慶応, 1865-1868), Nagato/Suō – “Chōshū Hagi-jū Nagahiro” (長州萩住永弘), “Nagato no Kuni-jūnin Fujita Shinryūshi Minamoto Nagahiro” (長門国住人藤田真龍子源永弘), “Suō no Kuni-jū Nagahiro kintan” (周防国住永弘謹鍛, “respectfully forged by Nagahiro from Suō province”), “Suō no Kuni-jūnin Shinryūshi Fujiwara Nagahiro saku” (周防国住人真龍子藤原永弘作), real name Fujita Tokujirō (藤田徳次郎), he changed his first name later to Kengo (兼吾), gō Shinryūshi (真龍子), student of the 1st gen. Yokoyama Kaga no Suke Sukenaga (加賀介祐永), he lived first in Chōshū´s Hagi (萩) but moved later to Yamaguchi (山口) in Suō province, he died on the sixth day of the sixth month Meiji twelve (明治, 1879), dense ko-itame with ji-nie, also an ō-itame with chikei all over the blade which appears as large-structured so-called yakumo-hada (八雲肌), the hamon is a gunome-chōji-midare, gunome, or suguha in ko-nie-deki with a tight nioiguchi, but also an ō-gunome-midare with ara-nie is seen, many blades show horimono, especially a characteristic dragon, sometimes he also signed with an additional koku´in, we know date signatures from the first year of Man´en (万延, 1860) to the fifth year of Meiji (1872), chūjō-saku