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Missing sword comes back to Terukuni Shrine after 134 yrs
A decorated sword for ceremonies that was presented by the Konoe Imperial Family to the Terukuni Shrine in Kagoshima City in celebration of its foundation, which had been unaccounted for during the Seinan War in 1877, returned to the shrine after 134 years, and was shown to the public on April 26. The antique will be on display at the Terukuni Memorial Hall from April 27 until June 27.
The sword is one of the works crafted by the 63rd generation of Yukiyasu of the Naminohira swordsmith family for the Konoe Family—whose many treasures had been destroyed by fire during the conflicts in Kyoto at the end of the Edo Period. It is said that Konoe Tadahiro dedicated the craftwork in 1865 to commemorate the foundation of the shrine that enshrined the local charismatic lord Shimadzu Nariakira. Tadahiro adopted the local Princess Atsuhime before she married into the then dictator Shogun Tokugawa Iesada.
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行方不明の刀が１３４年ぶりに照国神社に帰ってくる
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