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*''Japanese'': 千代金丸 ''(chiyoganemaru)''
*''Japanese'': 千代金丸 ''(chiyoganemaru)''
Chiyoganemaru is a famous and prominent Ryukyuan sword, today designated a [[National Treasure]] of Japan. It is held in the collection of the [[Naha]] City Museum of History, where it is regularly displayed.
Chiyoganemaru is a famous and prominent Ryukyuan sword, today designated a [[National Treasure]] of Japan. It is held in the collection of the [[Naha]] City Museum of History, where it is regularly displayed. Two additional swords, named [[Jiganemaru]] and [[Chatan naachiri]], are also included in the "[[Ryukyu Royal Sho Family Documents]]" as National Treasures.
[[File:Chiyoganemaru.jpg|center|thumb|1000px|The hilt and scabbard of Chiyoganemaru, displayed alongside the blade (not pictured) at the Naha City Museum of History, Sept 2024.]]
==History==
==History==
It is said that as [[Nakijin gusuku|his castle]] fell, [[Hananchi]] used the sword to smash a sacred stone in the [[gusuku|castle's]] ''[[utaki]]'' (central sacred space), and then committed suicide with the blade. He is said to have thrown Chiyoganemaru into the river as he died, after which it supposedly was carried by the currents to [[Iheya Island]], where someone found it and gifted it to the kings of Chûzan.
It is said that as [[Nakijin gusuku|his castle]] fell, [[Hananchi]] used the sword to smash a sacred stone in the [[gusuku|castle's]] ''[[utaki]]'' (central sacred space), and then committed suicide with the blade. He is said to have thrown Chiyoganemaru into the river as he died, after which it supposedly was carried by the currents to [[Iheya Island]], where someone found it and gifted it to the kings of Chûzan.
The sword was formally appraised (''kantei'') in [[1909]]; from records associated with this appraisal, it is clear that the sword was already held in the collections of the Shô family's Tokyo residence by that time.<ref>Hokama Masaaki 外間政明, "Shôke no takaramono ni tsuite" 「尚家の宝物について」, ''RYUKYU'' exhibition catalog, Tokyo National Museum (2022), 437-438.</ref>
==Description==
==Description==
*Gallery labels, Naha City Museum of History, August 2013.
*Gallery labels, Naha City Museum of History, August 2013.
*Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 95.
*Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 95.
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[[Category:Muromachi Period]]
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