Project Description
KANENORI (包則), Meiji (明治, 1868-1912), Tōkyō – “Miyamoto Kanenori” (宮本包則), “Noto no Kami Fujiwara Kanenori” (能登守藤原包則), “Teishitsu-gigei´in Miyamoto Kanenori” (帝室技芸員宮本包則), “Zen Notō no Kami Teishitsu-gigei´in shō-shichi´i Miyamoto Kanenori” (前能登守帝室技芸員正七位宮本包則, “Noto no Kami Miyamoto Kanenori, teishitsu-gigei´in, holder of the seventh courth rank”), “Hōki no Kuni-jū Miyamoto Sugawara Kanenori saku” (伯耆国住宮本菅原包則作), real name Miyamoto Shigahiko (宮本志賀彦), he was born on the 25th day of the eighth month Tenpō one (天保, 1830) in Ōgaki (大柿) in Hōki province, in the fourth year of Kaei (嘉永, 1851), he entered an apprenticeship under Bizen Yokoyama Sukekane (横山祐包), it was Sukekane who gave him the character for “Kane” (包), and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (有栖川宮熾仁親王, 1835-1895) granted him in the second year of Keiō (慶応, 1866) the honorary title Noto no Kami, in the fourth month of Meiji 39 (明治, 1906) he became a teishitsu-gigei´in (帝室技芸員), a title or rank that was introduced to preserve traditional arts and crafts not to be lost in the modernizing Japan, this status of a teishitsu-gigei´in can be regarded as forerunner of the modern ningen-kokuhō, besides of Gassan Sadakazu (月山貞一), he was the only swordsmith who had the honour to bear this title, Kanenori worked not only in Tōkyō but also in Tottori (鳥取) in Inaba province, in Kurayoshi (倉吉) in Hōki province, and in Kyōto, he died on October 24th 1926, sanbonsugi-like gunome or gunome in the style of Bizen Kanemitsu (兼光), also chōji-midare and saka-chōji-midare, jō-saku
