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Wazamono (Japanese: 業 （ わざ ） 物 （ もの ）) is a Japanese term that, in a literal sense, refers to an instrument that plays as it should; in the context of Japanese swords and sword collecting, wazamono denotes any sword with a sharp edge that has been tested to cut well, usually by professional sword appraisers via the art of tameshigiri (test cutting).
The Irish Sword of State (1660), a ceremonial sword of the Kingdom of Ireland. An earlier Irish sword of state was lost after 1581. [11] Displayed at the Jewel House, Tower of London. [12] The Sword of State (1678), part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom displayed at the Jewel House, Tower of London. [13]
Skofnung (Old Norse: Skǫfnungr) is in medieval Icelandic literature the sword of legendary Danish king Hrólf Kraki.According to Hrólfs saga kraka "The best of all swords that have been carried in northern lands", [1] it was renowned for supernatural sharpness and hardness, as well as for being imbued with the spirits of the king's 12 faithful berserker bodyguards.
The three books together list sixty-one blades by Masamune. There are far more blades listed for Masamune than the next two swordsmiths combined. It is known that Hideyoshi had a passion for Soshu swordsmiths which may explain this. A third of all swords listed are Soshu blades by many of the greatest Soshu masters, including Masamune's students.
A sword of state is a sword, used as part of the regalia, symbolising the supreme power of a monarch, given by God, to use the infinite might of the state to deter its enemies by use of deadly warfare, if thus dire, to maintain order in the realm and save the realm from extinction, because God chose the monarch as the master of the realm to ...
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Katanagatari is the story of Yasuri Shichika, a swordsman who fights without a sword, and Togame, an ambitious young strategist who seeks to collect 12 legendary swords for the shogunate. Shichika is the son of an exiled war hero and the seventh head of the Kyotouryuu school of fighting who lives on the isolated Fushou Island with his elder ...
Just as the kɛtɛanomfena are considered the Asante king's personal swords, asomfemfena, strictly speaking, belongs to the Gold Stool (Sikadwa Mfena), so are the swords of the Golden Stool [2] Gyegyetire: Asomfohene (chief of courier swords) is the custodian of this sword and at the same time Kɔkɔɔbrahene (chief of Kɔkɔɔbra).