Tsurugi (sword) - Japanese Broadsword

A tsurugi (剣) is a Japanese sword, akin to the Chinese jian. The word is used in the West to refer to a specific type of Japanese straight, double-edged sword used in antiquity.

Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi

1930s? Chinese Military Sword Exercise - Feng Yuxiang (1882 -1948) - Circa 1930's? Chinese Military Dadao Exercise performed by Feng Yuxiang a warlord and leader in Republican China.

The current name for the sword which is one of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan is "Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi".

See also

Dao (sword) - Wikipedia. Source : en.wikipedia.org

• Japanese sword mountings

References

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