Shinsakutō (新作刀) – Lit. “newly made sword.” When sword production resumed in 1953, i.e. after the ban on sword production issued by the allied forces, a new term was introduced for the newly made swords, namely shinsakutō, to distinguish them from the gendaitō swords made from after the haitōrei until WWII. However, shinsakutō means as indicated “newly made sword” and as this distinction took place more than half a century ago, there is the tendency among experts and collectors to “extend” the term gendaitō and apply it also to swords made in more or less the decades after WWII. But following the latter approach, no exact definition has yet been made to tell until when the term gendaitō applies and when the term shinsakutō should be used. Incidentally, there is also another approach to distinguish between gendaitō and shinsakutō, namely in the way that as long as a contemporary smith is alive, his works are referred to as shinsakutō but after his death they “become” gendaitō.