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 *Yoshinaga. Wao. 1740. A Yedo expert, who worked in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei.
 * Yoshinaga. Yasui. 1660. Sahei. A pupil of Goto Mitsusadt Riujō. A great expert. Kyoto.
 * Yoshinaga. Tamagawa. 1780. Saburohei; also called Bumpei. One of the greatest of the Mito artists. Mito (Hitachi).
 * Yoshinaga. Furukawa. 1650. Sahei. A pupil of Goto Riujō. A fine artist. Kyoto.
 * Yoshinaga. Umetada. 1650. Shichizayemon. One of the early Umetada workers. His tsuba are solid but of various shapes; some are chiselled à jour. A few have gold inlaying in the numone style. Yoshinaga used the ideograph ume in marking his work. Vide Muneyuki.
 * Yoshinari. Ogawa. 1840. Minosuke. A pupil of Jikosai. Yedo.
 * Yoshinobu. 1750. Called himself Hiyaku-ju-ken and marked his works Yoshinobu. A very skilled expert. Yedo.
 * Yoshinori. Yoshishige. 1630. Shokuro. Pupil of Yoshishige Gorosaku. Kaga.
 * Yoshinori. Mizuno. 1630. Genji. Kaga. Founder of the Mizuno family. A pupil of Goto Yenjō (Mitsuhide).
 * Yoshinori. Tsuji. 1780. Shinshiro. Art name, Yeisendo. An expert of the very highest skill. Worked in Omi. Also called Kariuken.
 * Yoshinori. Seki. 1820. Naokichi. Art name, Soriusai. A great artist. Yedo. Called also Umi-no Yoshinori.
 * Yoshioka. Family name. Vide Shigetsugu.
 * Yoshisada. Gotō. 1630. Saijiro. Kaga.
 * Yoshisato. Ishiguro. 1850. Called himself Jitekisai. Nagasaki.
 * Yoshishige. Mizuno. 1630. Genji. A pupil of Goto Yenjō and very skilled. Kaga.
 * Yoshishige. 1620. Gorosaku. Brother of the celebrated Kuninaga of Kaga and pupil of Goto Tokujō. Gorosaku and his elder brother, Jirosaku are equally famous. Their works are commonly spoken of as Gorosaku-bori and Jirosaku-bori, and they are regarded as the originators of the Kaga school of experts. Gorosaku is said to have been taught painting by the artist, Sōsa. He and his brother, Jirosaku, received an annual allowance of fifty bags of rice each from the feudal chief of Kaga. His descendants, his pupils and their descendants took the name Yoshishige as a family name.
 * Yoshitada. 1840. Chiuzaburo. A pupil of Jikosai. Yedo.
 * Yoshitaka. Ishiguro. 1850. Kintaro. Yedo.
 * Yoshitake. Shōami. 1660. Tsutsui. A pupil of Soden. Worked at Hikone.
 * Yoshitane. Honjō. 1850. Kamenosuke. A celebrated expert of Yedo, skilled not only as a sword-maker, but also as a chiseller of sword-mounts. One of the greatest workers of the nineteenth century.
 * Yoshitatsu. Fujiwara. Metal-worker of Yedo. Art names, Tessai and Tanzandō.
 * Yoshiteru. Sonobe. 1840. Art name, Tōgindō. A skilled expert of Kyoto.
 * Yoshitsugu. Sakai. 1850. Sakujiro. Yedo.
 * Yoshitsugu. Shōami. 1800. Jiyemon. An expert of Aizu.
 * Yoshitsugu. Okamoto. 1760. To-no-shin. An elaborate carver with a wide range of designs, being himself a painter. Hagi.
 * Yoshitsugu. Yoshishige. 1740. Hachitayu. Kaga.
 * Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1640. Gonzayemon. First expert of the Akao family. Lived at Fukui in Yechizen. Worked in the Kinai style.
 * Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1670. Kohei or Kichiji. Celebrated as the first to apply pierced decoration to guards of shakudo. Born in Yechizen, but worked in Yedo. Commonly known as Kinai Kichiji.
 * Yoshitsugu. Akao. 1720. A tolerably skilled expert who worked in the style of Yoshitsugu Kohei. Yedo.
 * Yoshitsune. Ishiguro. 1850. Ginnosuke. Grandson of Jimiyo. Called himself Senyushi, Gammon and Tominsai. A celebrated expert. Yedo.
 * Yoshitsumu. 1830. A fine expert of Tokyo, teacher of Toriusai.
 * Yoshiyasu. Kato. 1670. Jihei. Kyoto.