900 years of history, displayingKusanagi no Tsurugi, one of Japan's three sacred treasures. The legend goes that Amaterasu Omikami, the deity depicted in Japanese mythology as the ancestor of the Japanese Imperial Family, brought these treasures to ancient Japan....
1939 the weapon was named a national treasure in Japan, but remained in the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family. The last known owner of Honjo Masamune was Tokugawa Iemasa. Apparently Tokugawa Iemasa gave the weapon and 14 other swords to a police station in Mejiro, Japan, in December of ...