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The sword was forged in the 10-12th centuries by the swordsmith Hōki-no-Kuni Yasutsuna (伯耆国安綱). Dōjigiri (童子切, "Slayer of Shuten-dōji") is a tachi-type Japanese sword that has been identified as a National Treasure of Japan. [1] This sword is one of the "Five Swords Under Heaven" (天下五剣 Tenka-Goken).
Officially each sword is called by the combination of meibutsu (名物, "celebrated product"), name, and the personal name of its bladesmith, for example, meibutsu Dōjigiri Yasutsuna (名物童子切安綱, "celebrated Dōjigiri Yasutsuna"), [7] often shortened as Dōjigiri Yasutsuna.
The work of Yasutsuna who lived in Hōki Province predates that of the Ko-Bizen school. Though old sources date his activity to the early 9th century, he was most likely a contemporary of Sanjō Munechika. The first forging of the first curved Japanese swords has been attributed to these two smiths. [131] Yasutsuna founded the school with the ...
Shuten-dōji (酒呑童子, also sometimes called 酒顛童子, 酒天童子, or 朱点童子) is a mythical oni or demon leader of Japan, who according to legend was killed by the hero Minamoto no Raikō.
The Shinto goddess of metalworking and technology. She, alongside Yasutsuna Hoki, Munechika Sanjo, Kunitsuna Awataguchi, and Hephaestus, reforged Susano'o's Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi into the Onigiri Ame-no-Murakumo. She later appears during Round 10, spectating the match between Soji Okita and Susano'o.
It is a blade forged by the swordsmith Yasutsuna from the Hōki Province, who was active during the Heian period; the same swordsmith well-known for forging the famous Doujigiri Yasutsuna. According to the picture scroll “Kawachi Meisho Zue”, Tenkoumaru is said to be a “sister sword” of Doujigiri, meaning that the two blades were forged ...
A tachi is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and uchigatana generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when sheathed, the latter depending on the location of the mei (銘), or signature, on the tang.
Yukari is the current head of the Origami Family and the chief of the National Police Agency Special Sword Administration Bureau. She wields two katana, Okanehira and Dojigiri Yasutsuna and her fighting style is the Niten Ichi-ryū style. During the Tragedy of Sagami Bay she served as the commanding officer of the special duty team and defeated ...