.

Vincent van Gogh, on the conditions that allow good work: « ...you have to eat well, be well housed, have a screw from time to time, smoke your pipe and drink your coffee in peace. »

Japanese Swordsmith Kiyota Jirokunietsu Completed his apprenticeship under Mukansa smith Kawachi Kunihira in 2000, and is now working in Wakayama pref., Western Japan. He has been focussing his research on the Sue-Bizen tradition, more specifically on a group of smiths working under the name Sukesaka, at the end of the Muromachi period (late 16th century). Read More about Kiyota!