Samurai Sword Smith Mr Matsunaga, Arao

About Mr Matsunaga and Japanese swords

Mr MATSUNAGA Genrokuro is a living professional samurai sword smith making high quality samurai swords for his living. Japanese swords used to be worn by Samurai until they lost its position as the master of military force until the yera 1876 when the new government (Meiji government) achieved a great restoration to shift the old-fashioned society to the modern civilized society.

Samurai swords are well known to be unbreakable, unbending and razor sharp. For centuries, Samurai swords have been considered the soul of Samurai.

After the Meiji restoration, many of sword smiths had no choice but quit living on sword making. Many of them shifted to manufacturing kitchen knives or/and agricultural tools, but Mr Matsunaga chose to be one of the few Samurai sword smiths in this modern period. He is now raising his las apprentice.

What you can do

During this visit, you will inspect his workshop and learn how he forges samurai swords using quality materials. AND you can also try wielding the REAL Samurai sword to cut off a rolled Tatami pole, lectured by a sword master. Just check out the following footage to learn more and deeper.

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His workshop is situated in Arao city, northern part of Kumamoto, so I’d recommend you to combine a half day Kumamoto city tour in the morning to this visit to Mr Matsunaga’s workshop.

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