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It feels like out of any combination of the triangle, Mizu initiating with Akemi, with acceptance, feels the most right,

I think a fun third option (partially born of spite from how snarky a number of the other answers were about how "obvious" the answer was, partly cause I had a "Oh duh" moment) that also feels "obvious"? She sold her kitchen knives.

Ringo is using one with her signature on it at the very start. You see the same style sticking out of the noodle stall at the harbor. Etc. (yeah yeah they reuse model assets blah blah blah eat dick)

She made at least a thousand that we know of, and it's not like master Eiji is just going to have a mountain of kitchen knives piling up on the floor.

Plus if master Eiji sold them like the basket makers dead husband sold her baskets and they were good enough quality, then people assuming her signature was just another variation of master Eijis would give some tasty flavor to Taigen calling out Mizu's blade as being by master Eiji on sight even though they're sealed different. (Which, canonically is probably more than likely a detail error that can be written off as by the sound it makes or the blade quality. Still fun!).

I just love the idea of Mizu giving zero fucks about being whispered around in the culinary tool merchant network as the worlds most famously skilled kitchen knife maker (regardless of if its through eiji or not) and it's?? It feels like if fucking Miyazaki actually just didn't give a damn about film, it was just relevant in funding snd gaining a social in because he had a Jason Born destiny to follow.

Or like finding out that John Wick was also actually the guy who crafted the most famously exquisite prosthetic hands as a lad.