While I never personally contracted a professional blade-smith, I owned a few katanas in my time. 35.
Scroll to down to see more on that topic. They would suspend the sword from a branch, so that the blade would be halfway into the water, with the edge facing the current. The following is the original Chinese text; “(52nd year, Autumn, 9th month 10th day. Despite this, Muramasa katana continued their trajectory to legendary status. He was the head of a big blacksmith’s group, working for the Imperial court.
The legend of the demonic blade originated from Muramasa’s relationship with the shogunate and its elite samurai class. Event after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Honjo Masamune stayed with the Tokugawa family and during the War it was owned by Tokugawa Iemasa. Those who have gazed upon the sword are said to have met with great misfortune, as is the case with the Shinto priest Matsuoka Masanao and some companions, who claimed to have stolen a glance at it while replacing the sword’s box during the Edo period. According to an ancient legend, Masamune was challenged by his pupil one day: Who could make the better blade? Japanese Swords: Odachi vs Nodachi vs Katana, How to Survive a Catastrophic Power Outage. Here among the history of heated sword duels between battling samurai, and swordsmiths toiling away to forge their deadly blades, are accounts of katana that have become just as known for their mysterious alleged powers as they are for their craftsmanship. In later days his own wife and adopted son were allegedly excecuted using a Muramasa blade. You can refer to texts, pieces of literature, history and also try out the various name generator apps so popular these days. In pop-culture (movies and video games), there is always a cursed sword.
One day very soon, he wakes up from a dream.
In it, the two swordsmiths are together one day, impossible considering that they lived centuries apart but it is just a tale, and they began to debate who could make the finer katana. Within one of the fearsome beast’s tails was found a fabulous sword which he called the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and gifted to the sun goddess Amaterasu.
The Tokugawa descendant Iemasu Tokugawa handed over his family’s entire, priceless sword collection, dropping them off at a police station in Mejiro in December of 1945, after which they were collected by a mysterious sergeant of the US 7th Cavalry known only as “Coldy Bimore,” before seeming to vanish off the face of the earth. He and his son lock themselves in the forge for weeks on end. It is supposedly only brought out for very special occasions, such as Imperial coronation ceremonies, and even then it remains ensconced within layers of wrapping and secured within its box.
The wind wailed and whistled as it blew across the edge. Even the fish. The Juzumaru-Tsunetsugu is known as the rosary (juzumaru) sword because of its association with the Buddhist reformer Nichiren. Although Amakuni is long gone, his creation lives on and it will always remain a vital symbol of Japanese history and culture. Year Created: c.10th – 11th centuries Swordsmith: Hōki-no-Kuni Yasutsuna Sword Type: Tachi Present Location: Tokyo National Museum. But also due to his influence on all the subsequent generations of blade-smiths. At their most bloodthirsty and rage-fueled the swords were said to hardly discriminate between friend and foe, and used their owners merely as instruments with which to help them kill. Amakuni is considered the father of the samurai sword, which makes the Kogarasu Maru the oldest samurai sword in Japan. What is rare is also precious. The Dōjigiri Yasutsuna is the oldest of the Tenka-Goken. Many of them were subsequently melted down or otherwise destroyed, but since they were so revered for their sheer quality others were hidden or had any distinguishing features altered or removed, even in the face of severe punishment for owning one, typically the forcing of the guilty party to commit ritual suicide, or seppuku. Year Created: c. late 13th to early 14th century Swordsmith: Masamune Sword Type: Tachi Present Location: Unknown – lost since the end of World War II, photo source: Wikimedia Commons (a different Masamune sword is pictured because no public pictures of the Honjo Masamune exist). Despite this newfound sinister reputation as a bearer of illness, the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi nevertheless was considered a precious national treasure, one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan, and was sequestered within the shrine for safekeeping.