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HIROTSUGU (広次), 4th gen., Tenbun (天文, 1532-1555), Sagami – “Sōshū-jū Hirotsugu saku” (相州住広次作), “Hirotsugu” (広次), he also worked in Suruga, Kai, Musashi, Hitachi and Ise, we also know blades in moroha-zukuri, ō-gunome-midare, hitatsura, notare-midare, the jiba is due to the later active period no longer nie-laden as it was typical for the Sōshū smiths of earlier years, there exists a blade where he mentions in the signature that it was made at Ise for Kitabatake Harutomo (北畠晴具, 1503-1563), the 7th gen. of the Ise-Kitabatake family

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