SANKO NIJUHACHI KISHO [PORTRAITS OF TWENTY-EIGHT DRILLERS]

The metal artists portrayed are, clockwise from the top, Yokoya Somin, Tsu Jimpo, Nomura Tomoyoshi, Ozaki Naomasa, Ichinomiya Nagatsune, Tsuchiya Yasuchika, Yoshioka Buzen, Hamano Masayuki, his pupil Hamano Noriyuki, Furukawa Genchin, Umetada Naritsugu, Hosono Sozaemon (Masamori), Iwamoto Ryokan, Nara Masanaga, Ishiyama Mototada, Nara Soyu, Nara Toshimitsu, Nara Tsuneshige, Goto Seijo, Mito Michnaga, Murakami Jochiku, Omori Terumasa, Inagawa Naokatsu, Yanagawa Naomasa, Yokoya Soyo II, Sugiura Joi, Hashinobe Masasada and Nara Toshinaga.

For a similar coloured drawing from the W.W. Winkworth Collection, see B.W. Robinson, The Arts of the Japanese Sword (London, 1961), pl. 100 and H.J. Joly, Behrens Collection Catalogue, vol. 1, part III, Fasc. 1, pl. XI.