Editing Japanese sword (section)

====Mino school====
[[File:刀 関（孫六）兼元, Katana forged by Seki Kanemoto (Magoroku Kanemoto).jpg|thumb|300px|A Mino school ''katana'', by Seki Kanemoto (Magoroku Kanemoto). 16th century, [[Muromachi period]].]]
The Mino school is a school that originated in [[Mino Province]], corresponding to present-day [[Gifu Prefecture]]. Mino Province was a strategic traffic point connecting the [[Kantō region|Kanto]] and [[Kansai region|Kansai]] regions, and was surrounded by powerful ''[[daimyo]]'' (feudal lords). The Mino school started in the middle of the Kamakura period, when swordsmiths of the Yamato school who learned from the Sōshū school gathered in Mino. The Mino school became the largest production area of Japanese swords after the Bizen school declined due to a great flood. The production rate of ''katana'' was high, because it was the newest school among five big schools. Their swords are often characterized by a slightly higher central ridge and a thinner back. There are irregular fingerprint-like patterns on the surface of the blade, the ''hamon'' are various, and the grain on the border of the hamon are hardly visible.<ref name="rekishi200974">''歴史人'' September 2020. pp.74–75. {{ASIN|B08DGRWN98}}</ref>
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