With the previous demise of. The Giant.

That One.

So massively Drunk. Now largely Headless. One

酒呑童子物語 …Shutendōji Monogatari. The

 

Giant Shutendoji. That Sword. Belows. Imaged.

Herein thereof. There

abouts, arounds Japan. Of Yore. This

Blade. That

nomened so. Did go.

 

This Dōjigiri so went. Ons. In History

in Our World. Legends

of That Giant Blade. That slayed. That

GIANT. So Tell.

Mores.

 

Moreovers. To become

 

 

A Modern Cultural. Icon and

National Treasure. Monster

Cutter. Of Yore.

The Dōjigiri-Yasutsuna.

Sword.

 

Went in Deed. In Others Ways. Also.

Through much more. Than

just a Lil’. More. Then

 

Of Yore. Japan. Back then

That Swords. Giant

Trail Tales

well as. Continue. Herein

 

 

 

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this Monster. Cutter in Our World. Legends

insist, persist. Possibly

Telling

next within those Hands. Of One.

 

Nitta Yoshisada 新田義貞, 1301-1338.

Military. Martial. Man.

A General of the Nanbokuchō Period.

This Sword. Then used in His. Campaign for

Kamakura.

 

So.

Later in Times, Places. Noted

Edo-period Scholar Arai Hakuseki 新井白石, 1657-1725.

So writ. Noted The Dōjigiri was now. Part of the

 

Heirlooms.

Of the Settsu family 摂津.

Advisers of The Muromachi Bakufu. The

 

 

Ashikaga Shōgun Yoshiteru 足利義輝, 1536-1556

–Then on and to

Daimyo Oda Nobunaga 織田信長, 1534-1582.

 

Included next in the Property of His Successor

Toyotomi Hideyoshi 豊臣秀吉, 1537-1598.

This Daimyo also ordered The Collection of The

Hon´ami Kōtoku 本阿弥光徳, 1553-1619.

 

A Collection of Drawings Catalogued.

Of All The Swords of the family Toyotomi. The

resulting Work recorded

as: Kōtoku Katana Ezu 光徳刀絵図. Next

 

 

To Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu,.. Now Times of The

1550-1600’s. The Dōjigiri also

now. No longer used in Battle. Ceremonial.

Treasured. A Cutting Test

 

was performed in the Edo Period. Passed on from

Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康, 1542-1616. To His

Successor. Son also. Hidetada. Also Shōgun.

Hidetada 秀忠, 1579-1632. Passed on too. Into

 

the Tsuyama Branch of the Matsudaira family. Vis:

Hideyasu 秀康, 1574-1607.  Who was the. That

Second Son

of Tokugawa Ieyasu- granted The Sword. Of

Yasutsuna

when adopted 天正, 1590. By

Yūki Harutomo 結城晴朝, 1534-1614.

 

Of Shimōsa province Passed. Down

 

 

then. Vis a Hidetada Nephew. One

Matsudaira Tadanao 松平忠直, 1596-1650.

As part of the

Wedding. Dowry.

Of His Third Daughter.

A Mamori-gatana, 守刀. Of the Ceremony for

 

Katsuhime 勝姫 in Keichō 16 慶長, 1611. After.

Such a Main Event. Still. Mores. So to

come. Coming

next. In Our World. Legends of

History. Mentioned.

So Tell. As Told. Now… which was. Then. Then

 

a Youngster’s… Bed Times, Places. Companion.!.

Literally.

Within The Matsudaira. Families. A Tradition. Of

Sorts. Emerged.

The Baby-Sitter. Sword. Type.

A Night Times, Places.

Comforter Toy Type.

Per se.

Next too. To a Night-Light lit. Childly

 

Young Matsudaira Mitsunaga. Was

slowly but surely. Turning. Insomniac.

 

 

Every Night a FrickStorm. Of Stress. For

His Parents that is. That is until. Till

a House-Hold Servant shared. A

 

Memory. Remembering

such Tales. In Our World. Legends Tell

soon enough. Had

Mitsunaga’s Parents. Eventually. Slept

well as. Well as

 

The Rest of the House-Hold. There.

There, Their- This

Sword. Rightly and too. Next to

 

 

the evers so. Now. Growing

Matsudaira Mitsunaga;..

 

Later and Btw’s. He who. When Grown.

Ups. Mores. So

and more besides. That. So Became a Sponsor

and Employer of the

Swordsmith Ōmura Kaboku also. Also

later. That was. Then. Where

So and was… Exiled. During which...

This Legendary Sword was so. Also

Then. Neglected

 

from any Nightly involvement. So

Rusted. So became.

Fulls of… That

 

Koma-sabi 胡麻錆 = “…Sesame-rust…”. Frick. Fricked

off. When and then. He. Mitsunaga returned…

eventually. Immediately

ordered the Official

Polishers. To do some. Works. Polishing

Ups. That Dōjigiri. Then. There too. To that

 

 

was a close. Call for That. The Sword. For Then

there was. This. A Fire

 

Fricked. Almost. The Building next

doors also. Also

burning down/ups. That Front.

Door. Next door

to the Polishers. Door. Front. Just so

Went Ups. Some Flames.

Allsarounds. Abouts

 

this Places, Times as well. Well as

going Places

was. The Sword. Then.

 

Then ’twas so Moved. To a

Fricken. Safer Place then. Then

 

 

was so Polished Ups. Then

down. Into the Hands of One

 

Adopted Son. Sixth Daimyo of Tsuyama

in Mimasaka Province.

One Nobutomi 宣富, 1680-1721.

In 10 Genroku 元禄, 1697. Thereabouts. Their

 

Tsuyama branch of the Matsudaira family. Then.

Tested the Blade. Using The. MasterSword Tester

Machida Chōdayu 町田長太夫 also. Also

 

During that Jōkyō era 貞享, 1684-1688.

The Dōjigiri was examined and compared

by the Hon´ami Family. Appraisers. Appraised,

Rated as being of a Superior Quality. Noted. Notes

 

 

in Our World. Legends then. So Tell. Shōgun

Tokugawa Yoshimune 徳川吉宗, 1684-1751.

Held. The Sword. Of herein. Therein, thereof

 

Ordering the Appraisers… 本阿弥光忠

to conduct a Catalogue. Those

most Famous. Swords... Meibutsu, 名物.

Of this

Country. Japan. In 1719. Then

 

 

this Works. Those Registers so called:

Kyōhō Meibutsu Chō 享保名物帳 lists. Lists

that so include The Dōjigiri-Yasutsuna.

Further. Mores. ‘Tis one of the. Now nomened:

“…Five Great Swords… Tenka-goken, 天下五剣.

 

Such connections continued too. To be. Round

abouts. Those

Times, Places. Of

January 23^rd 1933, the Dōjigiri.

Was still. With The Matsudaira Family. Of Viscount

 

Matsudaira Yasuharu 松平康春 . For was then. There

designated as a

National Treasure. Till

ww2. Till that End. Of. Ending so

 

Ups. In Sword Collector’s Tamari Sannosuke’s.

玉利三之助 Collection.

Vis Sword Dealer Dealings. With Ishiguro Kuro 石黒久呂

 

 

Sold Ons too. To Murayama Kanji 村山寛二

Who… Pawned it too. To initiate,

enwrap. This Giant Defeatings. Sword.

In a Legal Wrangle. Wrangling

 

by Government Authorities and Officials.

Then

In 1963 too. To

Kept it. Safe. For soon. Japan’s then

 

Agency of Cultural Affairs. The Bunkacho 文化庁

So purchased, preserved now. Ins The

Tokyo National. Museum. Then as. Now. Now…

 

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World Legends. Is A Desire.

 

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