After Pacific Wars (Greater East Asia War) surrender, sword hunting was performed by the alliance nation's armed forces Commander in chief general headquarters which considered a Japanese sword to be a weapon, and the many swords which did it including the firefly-maru suffered abandonment / the scatter (like Kumamoto, there is the example dumped among the back seas which I take oil, and was burnt). In addition, the rumor that "GHQ comes when there is a sword to look for it with a metal detector" flies and conceals it in the under the ground and I let, as a result, a sword die and spoil it and I break it so that it is it in lower than length of the break-even point and do it with a knife, and, as for the example which devalued and I bring it in in the blacksmith's to be able to use it for everyday life and remodel it into a hatchet and a sickle, the knife which, in addition, is for it every day Japanese sword, there is not time for counting up. Many of swords which I forfeited in GHQ were kept by the warehouse of the United States Armed Forces which there was in Akabane, and it was returned to the Japanese Government with cancellation of the occupation. However, because most of the original owners are missing, the proprietary rights move to the government, and these swords are called "Akabane sword" among sword lovers.
The continuation of the Japanese sword itself was anxious about at one time, but, by a desperate effort of the Japanese side, possession by the registration system was enabled. Registration is obliged Japanese sword in itself to, and it is necessary for the sword that registration is not accomplished to catch the back examination that I reported to the police. Take a limit by the gun and sword method about the possession, but the permission is not necessary about the possession, and is all possibility; (there is the place regulating sale to less than 18 years old by the regulations). In addition, in the case of the purchase, a report of name change to each metropolis and districts Board of Education of registration document mention is necessary.
The Japanese sword is not a weapon, and it is an excellent work of art which is equal with a tool for the martial arts such as a quick draw of the sword / the unsheathed sword, a picture and ceramics, and production / possession is recognized only in the purpose today. Currently, I assume it an original weapon, and there is not appearing, and value as the work of art is high. Value as the work of art is high, and the Japanese sword is appointed to a national treasure, important cultural property, an important art object in a world sword. By Japanese sword original training, appreciate various sword figures, a pattern on the sword blade, a hat, stem form, a signature; is, so to speak, a work of art of the iron. Value as the work of art does not understand the characteristic well. The history of the appreciation of the Japanese sword is old, and there is the history more than 1000 years. In fact, as for the Japanese sword called a celebrated sword, as for the thing used as a weapon, it is really rare and the perfect gem of the Japanese sword and the thing said to pass through time more than it in 1000 and stay in healthy form. About the modern sword, I decide an allotment of the number that I may produce per swordsmith in a year and prevent a fall of the quality of the work by 粗製濫造. However, on the other hand, because there is few making a sword demand as for many swordsmiths although it is natural only by a main profession (a swordsmith), life is difficult, and still there is the above-mentioned number limit, and it may be said that there are many numbers and is cheap and makes it for a martial artist and makes money by just that much, and no sword inscribed with the maker's name must understand that I hold many problems as well as the craftsman of other folkcrafts except some swordsmiths without it being possible for a making a sword because there is not it. Both such situation and the modern swordsmith convey the making a sword of the Japanese sword as the work of art in various form in the present age.
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