Katana "Dragon claws" red, Maru 1060

Sharp katana with varnished wooden scabbard, ito (柄糸) and sageo (下緒) dark red, supplied with protective fabric cover¹.

My guard (鍔 tsuba) preserves the memory of my origins. I served a masterless samurai, a rōnin (浪人). Having stepped outside the hierarchy by refusing to renounce his membership of a fallen clan, my master had gone into exile in the mountains. For years, he defended the merchants and peasants in the region against the Shōgun (将軍) hordes who slaughtered everything in their path. But what most frightened the populace was a dragon, lurking in the limestone galleries by day, coming out to hunt at night.
So my master chose me a new mount, blood-colored, with a tsuba forming two dragon claws. This is the one I've kept over the centuries. In the half-light, he entered the dragon's lair and planted me in the top of its skull. The fight was brief. My master sliced off the claws, gouged out the eyes and reached the heart of the fantastic beast. At the end of the fight, my master withdrew from the world, touched by the look in his eyes that life was leaving. He had understood, too late, that the dragon didn't hunt for pleasure, but to protect its offspring. He placed me on the dragon's head and disappeared.

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