Nihon-shinshinto-shi - The History of the shinshinto Era of Japanese Swords

I now complete the series with the „Nihon-shinshinto-shi the history of the shinshinto era of Japanese swords starting from Suishinshi Masahide´s initiation of a new trend around An´ei (1772-1781) to the ban on swords issued by the Meiji government in 1876. As with the „Nihon-koto-shi and the „Nihon-shinto-shi the reader should be able to grasp a coherent picture of the backgrounds and scholastic activities around the Japanese sword at the end of the feudal era. Finally the time scale must not be overlooked: The „Nihon-koto-shi had to deal with roughly 800 years from the Nara to the end of the Muromachi period and the „Nihon-shinto-shi comprised „just about 200 years whereas the shinshinto era lasted only about a century.