Mr. Tamio Tsuchiko

Mr. Tsuchiko assisted Mr. Kenji Mishina for Lecture-2002-09-30. He is a writer and editor of numerous publications on Japanese swords and Japanese craftsmanship in general, including traditional crafts as well as contemporary engineering. Mr. Tsuchiko has been involved in the sword world for more than thirty years, and is one of the executives of Nihon Bunka Niju-isseiki Iinkai, or the Japanese Culture Twenty-first Century Committee. He has carried out detailed research on the history of Japanese swords in modern times. His latest book, Kurihara Hikosaburo Zen Kiroku ("The Complete Record of the Life and Times of Hikosaburo Kurihara"), published in Japanese, was well received by sword enthusiasts. His work Nihonto Niju-isseiki e no Chosen ("A Challenge for the Japanese Sword in the Twenty-first Century"), of which "The New Generation of Japanese Swordsmiths" is Mr. Mishina's translation, has won acclaim as the most extensive and illustrative study of gendai-tosho in sword literature. He lives in Tokyo, where he is active in the promotion of Japanese crafts and the Japanese sword.