NOT KNOWN FACTS ABOUT KATANA SWORDS

Generally, the blade as well as the sword mounting of Japanese swords are displayed individually in museums, and this inclination is extraordinary in Japan. In 1719, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the 8th shogun in the Tokugawa shogunate, purchased Hon'ami Kōchū, who was an authority of sword appraisal, to file swords possessed by daimyo around Japan in te