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Some replica weapon companies have produced replicas of Sephiroth's sword, the Masamune, as a 6-foot-long (1.8 m) katana with a stainless steel unsharpened blade. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] A statue at Kyoto University depicting Sephiroth was also made. [ 74 ]
The swords of Masamune possess a reputation for superior beauty and quality, remarkable in a period where the steel necessary for swords was often impure. He is considered to have brought to perfection the art of " nie " ( 錵 , martensitic crystals embedded in pearlite matrix , thought to resemble stars in the night sky) .
The Masamune sword is by far the most referenced Japanese sword in popular fiction, ranging through books, movies and computer games. Murasame – A magical katana that mentioned in fiction Nansō Satomi Hakkenden , it said the blade can moist itself to wash off the blood stain for keeping it sharp.
With an inscription in gold inlay from 1609: Owned by Shiro Lord of Izumi (城和泉守所持, Shiro Izumi no Kami shoji) and Masamune Suriage Honami (正宗磨上本阿) (authenticated by Honami Kōtoku as Masamune sword); formerly in possession of the Tsugaru clan; curvature 2.1 cm (0.83 in)
Date Masamune (伊達 政宗, DAH-tay; September 5, 1567 – June 27, 1636) was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi–Momoyama period through the early Edo period.Heir to a long line of powerful feudal lords in the Tōhoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai.
Lores in the late Muromachi period (early 16th century–1573) stated that Muramasa I was a student of Masamune (c. 1300), the greatest swordsmith in Japan's history, and the Hon'ami family (family dynasty of swordpolishers and sword connoisseurs) commented that his floruit was the Jōji era (1362–1368). [9]
The history of the family covers a period of more than 600 years. SHIZU KANEUJI was the founder in Mino and was a student of Masamune. According to Victor Harris, Keeper at the Department of Japanese Antiquities at the British Museum, the first-generation Kanenobu worked around the year 1345 in Mino province, an area that was famous for its swords.
In principle, swords forged by Mukansa are not eligible for awards. [29] The Masamune Award is only given when an outstanding sword made by a Mukansa smith is submitted. Most recently, the Masamune Award was given to Amata Akitsugu in 1996, [30] Norihiro Miyairi in 2010 for a tantō, [31] and Kunihira Kawachi in 2014 for a tachi. [32]