Osafune faction

Japanese: 長船派 - おさふねは

A school of swordsmiths who lived in Osafune, Bizen Province, from the mid-Kamakura period to the end of the Muromachi period. The first master was Mitsutada in the mid-Kamakura period. Swordsmiths have lived in this area of what is now Okayama Prefecture since the Heian period, and before the Osafune school there were other schools such as the Ko-Bizen school and the Ichimonji school. The Osafune school became the largest school from the mid-Kamakura period onwards due to the beauty of the shape and blade pattern of its swords, and it produced master swordsmiths of each era, including Mitsutada, Nagamitsu, Kagemitsu, Masanaga, Kanemitsu and Sukesada. The swords they make are called Osafune-mono.

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Japanese:

鎌倉時代中期～室町時代末期，備前国長船に住んだ刀工の流派。初代は鎌倉時代中期の光忠。現岡山県のこの地方には平安時代から刀工が住み，長船派以前に古備前派，一文字派などの流派があった。鎌倉時代中期以降長船派が最大の流派となったのは，刀の姿と刃文の美しさによるもので，光忠以下，長光，景光，真長，兼光，祐定と各時代の名工を生んだ。作刀を長船物という。

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