Funasaka Hiroshi

舩坂弘
Japan

Description

Kendoka and owner of the Taiseido martial-arts bookshop in Shibuya, Tokyo; elder brother of the Omori-ryu iai master Funasaka Yoshio. He was Mishima's senior at the kendo dojo they both attended, and after Mishima wrote a laudatory preface to his wartime memoir Eirei no Zekkyo (Cries of the Heroic Dead, 1966), he let Mishima choose a sword from his collection in September 1966 - a blade attributed to Seki no Magoroku that Japanese Wikipedia records he had bought from Nakamura Yasuichiro for 50,000 yen, though Christopher Ross's interviewee judged it a second-generation Kanemoto. The sword was used in the Ichigaya incident of 25 November 1970.

Sources

三島由紀夫 - 日本語版ウィキペディア. Wikipedia (Japanese)link history info
“One morning in August 1966, Hiroshi Funasaka, owner of Taiseido Bookshop in Tokyo's Shibuya and Mishima's senior at the kendo dojo they both attend, asks Mishima if he might have time to look at a memoir he has written of his wartime experiences.”
— Ross, Christopher. (2006). Mishima's Sword - Travels in Search of a Samurai Legendlink info

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