Famous swords
Swords with names of their own: the five under heaven (tenka goken) and others from the great collections, with their smith, school, history and the place where they are kept today.
- Dōjigiri Yasutsuna 童子切安綱 The tachi by Yasutsuna of Hōki, the oldest of the tenka goken and one of the great treasures of the Japanese sword.
- Juzumaru Tsunetsugu 数珠丸恒次 The tachi of the monk Nichiren, one of the tenka goken, with a Buddhist rosary on its hilt; a temple in Amagasaki keeps it.
- Kitsunegasaki 狐ヶ崎 The tachi by Tametsugu of Ko-Aoe that the Kikkawa house has kept since a battle in 1200, with its original mounting.
- Mikazuki Munechika 三日月宗近 The tachi by Sanjō Munechika, held to be the most beautiful of the tenka goken, with crescent moons in its temper.
- Mōri Tōshirō 毛利藤四郎 A tantō by Tōshirō Yoshimitsu named after Mōri Terumoto; it is listed in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō.
- Ōdenta Mitsuyo 大典太光世 The tachi by Mitsuyo of Miike, one of the tenka goken: short, very wide and heavy, handed down in the Maeda house.
- Okayama Tōshirō 岡山藤四郎 A tantō by Tōshirō Yoshimitsu named after Kobayakawa Hideaki, lord of Okayama castle; it is listed in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō.
- Onimaru Kunitsuna 鬼丸国綱 The tachi by Awataguchi Kunitsuna, one of the tenka goken and the only one in the imperial collection.