Kantei
The base of a polished blade and its dark tang, horizontal, with two open holes and three plugged with silver.

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Matsugasaki · Tokyo National Museum

Famous works

Two signed blades: Uesugi Kagekatsu’s and the one in the Tokyo National Museum.

On this page
  1. Works
  2. Uesugi Kagekatsu’s sword
  3. Lists and treatises

Works

WorkCategoryWhere it isDetails
Tachi 銘助宗 (mei Sukemune)Important Cultural PropertyMatsugasaki shrine, Yonezawa (Yamagata)With its leather-covered tachi mounting; used by Uesugi Kagekatsu
Tachi 銘助宗 (mei Sukemune)No designationTokyo National MuseumKamakura, 13th century; shortened; one of his few signed works

Uesugi Kagekatsu’s sword

The Japanese Wikipedia gives it as Uesugi Kagekatsu’s favourite sword.

Lists and treatises

He is not recorded in the Kyōhō meibutsuchō or in the wazamono lists, in the sources consulted.