The first and second generations of the Akasaka school, Tadamasa and his son, moved to Edo around the Kan'ei era, where they produced tsuba by adding ingenuity to the Owari-tou method and the Kyo-tou method, and prospered until the end of the Edo period. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation (Ko-Akasaka) have good forging of the iron base, and many of them are round and thick with round ears. From around the time of Tadatsuki IV, the tsuba became a little thinner and became more elaborately crafted. The name Akasaka was used from the place where the craftsmen of this family lived (present-day Akasaka area in Minato Ward, Tokyo).
Akasaka school Tadatoki (first generation) Hikojuro, a coterie of Tadamune. His real surname is also written as Hozumi.
He held office for 39 years from 1707 (1707), and in his later years, he handed over the family headship to the second head, Tadamune, and called himself Tadamune.
Bushu Akasaka residence Hikojuro Tadatoki Akasaka Hikojuro Tadatoki.
He makes a design-like groundwork tsuba such as shrine head, paulownia, thin, tea whisk, suehiro, and myoga on a round iron ground.
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