I photographed this on my current trip. The photo is of the blade portion of a Gassan Sadakazu that was owned by the first Prime Minister of Japan (if I remember the story right, been told a lot of stories and things get jumbled about).
(900k file, big, your web browser may give you a scaled down representation until you click on the image):
http://www.nihonto.ca/firstmerge.jpg
The theme is of the Six Poets. It's all grass script.
I would like to be able to document this in its e