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Two short videos of works attributed to Sadamune: one by a museum and the other by some visitors.

Play: The unsigned wakizashi Kiriha Sadamune 切刃貞宗 (Kiriha Sadamune), at the Kagawa Prefectural Museum

The unsigned wakizashi Kiriha Sadamune 切刃貞宗 (Kiriha Sadamune), at the Kagawa Prefectural Museum · 香川県立ミュージアム (Kagawa Kenritsu Myūjiamu)

1:35 · 9 December 2020

A curator of the museum presents the wakizashi Kiriha Sadamune of the Matsudaira house of Takamatsu, in the special exhibition 語る武具 (Kataru Bugu). According to the museum, the blade was burned in the siege of Ōsaka of 1615. It is a different blade from the katana Kiriha Sadamune at the Tokyo National Museum.

Play: Visitors before the Kikkō Sadamune 亀甲貞宗 (Kikkō Sadamune), National Treasure, at the Tokyo National Museum

Visitors before the Kikkō Sadamune 亀甲貞宗 (Kikkō Sadamune), National Treasure, at the Tokyo National Museum · yoshian yoshi

1:23 · 10 June 2015

An enthusiast films the display case of the Kikkō Sadamune and the visitors who come up to see it, in June 2015.