I now complete the series with the ãNihon-shinshinto-shiÒ, the history of the shinshinto era of Japanese swords, starting from Suishinshi Masahide«s initiation of a new trend around An«ei (1772-1781) to the ban on swords issued by the Meiji government in 1876. As with the ãNihon-koto-shiÒ and the ãNihon-shinto-shiÒ, the reader should be able to grasp a coherent picture of the backgrounds and scholastic activities around the Japanese sword at the end of the feudal era. Finally, the time scale must not be overlooked: The ãNihon-koto-shiÒ had to deal with roughly 800 years, from the Nara to the end of the Muromachi period, and the ãNihon-shinto-shiÒ comprised ãjustÒ about 200 years, whereas the shinshinto era lasted only about a century.