KANETORA (兼虎), Ansei (安政, 1854-1860), Shinano – “Kanetora” (兼虎), “Kanetora Shinshū Matsushiro-shin” (兼虎信州枩代臣, “Kanetora, retainer of the Matsushiro fief of Shinano province”), “Matsushiro-shi Kane-tora” (松代士兼虎, “Kanetora, retainer of the Matsushiro fief), “Isshinsai Kanetora” (一信斎兼虎), “Ippōsai Kanetora” (一法斎兼虎), “Shinshū Matsushiro-shin Shōryūken Kanetora” (信州松代臣升龍軒兼虎), “Jikishinsai Kanetora” (直信斎兼虎), “Minamoto Ason Kanetora” (源朝臣兼虎), Kanetora – his first name was Hayatanosuke (隼太之助) – was born in the ninth month of the eighth year of Bunsei (文政, 1825) als oldest son of Yamaura Masao (山浦真雄), his youth names were Shūsaku (秀作) and Isamu (勇, also reads Isao, Yū, or Takeshi), he started as a swordsman and went in the first yea or Kōka (弘化, 1844) to Edo to study under the Jiki-Shinkage master (直心影流) Shimada Toranosuke (島田虎之助, 1814-1852), in Kaei two (嘉永, 1849), he started also an apprenticeship as swordsmith at his uncle Kiyomaro (清麿), back then he signed with Yukimune (行宗) and Kanehira (兼平) and was later employed like his father by the Matsushiro fief (松代藩), thereupon, it was the third year of Ansei (安政, 1856), he changed his name to Kanetora, he made many joint works with his father, his jihada is a dense mokume mixed with some masame that tends sometimes to muji, the hamon is a gunome-midare or suguha with ara-nie, he used the pseudonyms Isshinsai (一信斎), Jikishinsai (直信斎), Ippōsai (一法斎) and Shōryūken (升龍軒), he died in the eighth month of Meiji 28 (明治, 1895) at the age of 71, chūjō-saku