Masamune
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Gorō Nyūdō Masamune was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō, in the Sōshū school. Howeve
Tantō Masamune, Important Art Object
Honjo Shigenaga
Toyotomi-Hidetsugu
A drawing of the Honjo Masamune drawn by 17 century swordsmith Tsuguhira
Muramasa
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Muramasa, commonly known as Sengo Muramasa, was a famous swordsmith who founded the Muramasa school and lived during the Muromachi period in Kuwana, Ise Province, Japan.
Nabeshima Katsushige
Replica of the Tonbokiri, made in 1847, in the Tokyo National Museum
A Tale of Sano Jirōzaemon, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1886. People rumored that Jirōzaemon murdered his lover with a cursed sword. The kabuki drama Kago-tsurube Sato-no-Eizame (1888) claimed that his sword was forged by Muramasa.