Seven-Branched Sword

• abstract: The Seven-Branched Sword (七支刀) Shichishitō/Nanatsusaya no Tachi, is a sword of continental manufacture believed to be identical with the artefact of that name, a gift of the king of Baekje to a Yamato ruler, mentioned in the Nihon Shoki in the fifty-second year of the reign of the semi-mythical Empress Jingū.Nana Miyata,Die Übernahme der chinesischen Kultur in Japans Altertum, LIT Verlag, Münster p.

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