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Origin[]
"Dojigiri", one of the Five Swords under Heaven, a legendary sword with which Minamoto no Yorimitsu killed the boy-faced oni Shuten-dōji living near Mount Oe. Presented to Oda Nobunaga by the Ashikaga family subsequently in possession of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, curvature: 2.7 cm. The blade is 80 cm long and now curently resides in Tokyo National Museum.