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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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