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Old 12th March 2017, 07:25 PM   #16
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Not sure what you mean by "industrial or semi-industrial". With the exception of the "top end" gendai smiths, most other Showa era blades (whether hand forged or not) were made in factory settings using production line methods (smith forges blade, someone else polishes it, yet others mount it, etc.).
IMHO, Kanenori falls into the latter catagory - probably hand forged, but not of tamehagane, and then passed on for polishing,mounting.

Here's a page that may be of help.

http://www.japaneseswordindex.com/showato.htm

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