A name called "the Japanese sword"

"The Japanese sword" is a name when I looked from the foreign countries originally. I call it "a sword" (it is a person) or "a sword" (a sword) in old Japan and do not use the name called "the Japanese sword".

The name called "the Japanese sword" is seen in "a Japanese sword song" of Europe positive Osamu (I learn it to chase it) who is a poet of north Soong. In this poetry, a point of view of the art such as a thing and the decoration or the features to go is sung to purchase the Japanese sword that a merchant of 越 (the sinter south) was already called a precious sword in those days to Japan. The main subject of "the song of Japanese sword" is the poetry that grieved over there being the book which has been already scattered and lost in Japan not a Japanese sword in China,; but the beauty of the Japanese sword is the latter period in the Heian era - It is recognized and has already shown that I was considered to be the one of the exports to overseas connoisseurs in the days of Kamakura in the early days.

It is a thing after the late Tokugawa period that a name called "the Japanese sword" spread out as a general name for the Japanese. As the reason, cope with what the Japanese picture which flow out into Europe, and evaluation was sublimed into distinguishes it from a conventional Western picture, and came to be referred to "a Japanese traditional painting" after the late Tokugawa period; and for a Western sword called the Japanese sword called it, and settled. Or a name called "the sword" was common "a long sword" before it (I beat, and it is). It was to enter Showa mainly that a name called the Japanese sword was tied to nationalism, and came to be told, and it was only swords fossil in the Meiji era, and the sword of the saber style was adopted as a saber until the time of the Manchurian Incident.