KANESHIGE (兼重), Kaei (嘉永, 1848-1854), Kaga – “Kashū Kinpu-jō Yasue-Ohachiman-sha no hen-jū Kinoshita Jinnojō Kaneshige saku” (加州金府上安江御八幡社辺住木下甚之丞兼重作, “made by Kinoshita Jinnojō Kane-shige who lives in the vicinity of Kaga Kanazawa´s Yasue-Hachiman shrine”), Kashū-jū Fujiwara Kaneshige” (加州住藤原兼重), real name Kinoshita Jinnojō (木下甚之丞), son of the 8th gen. Kanehisa, he changed his name from Kanehisa (兼久) to Kaneshige, it is said that he received the honorary title Ise no Daijō (伊勢大掾) in the sixth year of Ansei (安政, 1859) but no such signed blades are known, he died in the second year of Bunkyū (文久, 1862), dense ko-mokume, notare mixed with a hako-midare-like gunome, chūjō-saku