Koto Mino Kaneuji (kodai)

KANEUJI (兼氏), Ōei (応永, 1394-1428), Mino – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Mino no Kuni-jūnin Kaneuji” (美濃国住人兼氏), Shizu school, with the transition to the Muromachi era, the number of smiths who signed with Kaneuji further increases, these were no longer active in Naoe (直江) but also in Seki (関), Muroya (室屋), and Akasaka (赤坂), Kaneuji blades of that time show an itame mixed with masame and ji-nie and a gunome in ko-nie-deki which tends to koshi-no-hiraita, the signatures are executed with a fine chisel and we also known naga-mei

KANEUJI (兼氏), Bunmei (文明, 1469-1487), Mino – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Kaneuji saku” (兼氏作), “Nōshū-jū Kaneuji” (濃州住兼氏), Akasaka school, according to tradition this Bunmei-era Kaneuji was the son or the grandson of a Kaneuji who moved from Naoe to Akasaka, wazamono, chū-jō-saku

KANEUJI (兼氏), Tenbun (天文, 1532-1555), Mino – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Nōshū Seki-jū Kaneuji” (濃州関住兼氏), Muroya school (室屋), this Kaneuji was a descendant of the Kaneuji line that had once moved from Naoe to Seki and had joined there the local Muroya school, suguha, notare mixed with gunome, gunome-midare, mostly in ko-nie-deki, in some cases also in nioi-deki

KANEUJI (兼氏), Eiroku (永禄, 1558-1570), Mino – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Nōshū Seki-jū Kaneuji” (濃州関住兼氏), Muroya school (室屋), suguha, notare-midare

KANEUJI (兼氏), Tenshō (天正, 1573-1592), Mino – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Kaneuji saku” (兼氏作), this Kaneuji lived in Kiyomizu (清水) in Mino province, there exists the theory that he came originally from Yamato province or that he was a later Kaneuji from the Akasaka line of Kaneuji smiths, itame mixed with masame, suguha mixed with ko-midare, gunome or notare-midare in nioi-deki, chū-saku

KANEUJI (兼氏), Bunroku (文禄, 1592-1596), Mino/Owari – “Kaneuji” (兼氏), “Bishū Inuyama-jū Kaneuji” (尾州犬山住兼氏), around Bunroku, one Kaneuji from the later Akasaka group of these smiths moved to Inuyama (犬山) to Owari province, it is said that the Kanuji smiths worked there until the Kan´ei era (寛永, 1624-1644), the Sue-Seki style was kept in Owari, that means a notare mixed with midare or a gunome-midare in ko-nie-deki, most blades of this group have a stout sugata