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Gifu Prefecture Museum is celebrating it's 50th anniversary of opening with a very special exhibition featuring the Tokugawa Art Museum's sword collection, which is associated with the Owari Tokugawa family, to commemorate this occasion.
Boasting one of the nation's leading collections of samurai culture, the Tokugawa Art Museum has been home to swords associated with the Owari domain and the Owari Tokugawa family for generations, all made up of bequests from Tokugawa Ieyasu. They are unrivaled not only in their "quality," each with its own history, but also in their "quantity," which counts hundreds of items. Among these, hidden behind famous swords and specialties, there are quite a few swords made by Mino blacksmiths that have been missed from public display until now.
This exhibition provides a comprehensive introduction to swords from the Tokugawa Art Museum's collection, including swords from Mino and Owari, which have rarely been on public display until now.
During the Sengoku period, Mino swords, which were forged and used locally by the people of Japan as practical swords, were praised for their sharpness and ease of use, but their value was often overlooked.
These unknown masterpieces of Mino swords, which will be brought together to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Gifu Prefectural Museum, are likely to be of great significance to the public in Gifu.
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