(国弘), Shōhei (正平, 1346-1370), Chikuzen – “Kunihiro saku” (国弘作), “Chikushū-jū Kunihiro saku” (筑州住国弘作), according to tradition either the son of Sa Sadayuki (左定行) or of Yoshihiro (吉弘), we know date signatures from the Shōhei and the Enbun era (延文, 1356-1361), that means he used the dating of the Northern and the Southern Dynasty, it is said that he was a direct student or the adopted son of Ō-Sa (大左), he lived in Chikuzen´s Ikinohama (息浜), we know mostly tantō with a wide mihaba and some sori, itame-nagare with ji-nie and a tendency shirake, notare mixed with midare in nie-deki, the bōshi is a pointed midare-komi, ryō-wazamono, jōjō-saku ◎