This maker is rarely seen.
The founder of the Sano school was Naoyoshi who was – as seen in the Genealogy of the Yanagawa school – a student of Nakamura Naonori (中村直矩). That means via the Yanagawa the Sano school was an offshoot of the Yokoya school, oriented towards the style of the Yokoya and the Yanagwa school. Naoteru was the 2nd generation.
