Dōjigiri Yasutsuna
童子切安綱
National TreasureTachi sword — Heian period
National Treasure
Dōjigiri Yasutsuna
童子切安綱
- Type
- Tachi sword
- Period and date
- Heian period
- Artist
- Yasutsuna
- Material
- Steel
- Collection:
- Tokyo National Museum
03 — Overview
A tachi by Yasutsuna, a smith of Ōhara in Hōki Province, from the Heian period. One of the Five Swords Under Heaven (Tenka Goken), it is sometimes paired with Ō-Kanehira as a yokozuna among Japanese swords, and is valued as one of the oldest surviving blades of its kind.
04 — Object data
- Designation
- National TreasureSource ↗
- Type
- Tachi sword
- Category
- Swords
- Swordsmith
- Yasutsuna
- Period
- Heian period
- Place of origin
- Hōki Province (the smith's home) — Tottori
- Material
- Steel
- Collection
- Tokyo National Museum ↗
10 — Gallery
13 — Related objects
14 — Sources & references
- [1]童子切
文化庁 国指定文化財等データベース · Government · Supports: Designation, Name
- [2]https://emuseum.nich.go.jp/detail?content_base_id=100186&content_part_id=001&content_pict_id=001&langId=ja&webView=null
Museum · Museum · Supports: Collection, Description
- [3]Wikidata Q11598454
Wikidata · Database · Supports: Name, Date, Maker, Collection · Accessed 2026-09-25
- [4]童子切
Wikipedia（日本語版） · Encyclopedia · Supports: Description · Accessed 2026-09-25
- [5]Dōjigiri
Wikipedia (English) · Encyclopedia · Supports: Description · Accessed 2026-09-25
- [6]File:Tachi Sword - Dojikiri Yasutsuna.jpg
Wikimedia Commons · Image host
- [7]File:DOJI KIRI sword.jpg
Wikimedia Commons · Image host
- [8]File:Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-omote.jpg
Wikimedia Commons · Image host
- [9]File:Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-ura.jpg
Wikimedia Commons · Image host
15 — Image credits
Tachi Sword - Dojikiri Yasutsuna
- Creator / Photographer
- Kakidai
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons — File:Tachi Sword - Dojikiri Yasutsuna.jpg ↗
- Credit
- Own work
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
DOJI KIRI sword
- Creator / Photographer
- Association of Cultural Properties、Japan
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons — File:DOJI KIRI sword.jpg ↗
- Credit
- Portfolio of National tresures Volume 3rd, Association of Cultural Properties, Tokyo, 1955-03-20
- Licence
- Public domain
Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-omote
- Creator / Photographer
- 国立文化財機構
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons — File:Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-omote.jpg ↗
- Credit
- ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan: online database: entry tnm/F-19931
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 ↗
Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-ura
- Creator / Photographer
- 国立文化財機構
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons — File:Dōjigiri Yasutsuna haki-ura.jpg ↗
- Credit
- ColBase: Integrated Collections Database of the National Museums, Japan: online database: entry tnm/F-19931
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 ↗