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>>500 Kofun warrior
>>>sword
Subject: warrior
Culture: Kofun
Setting: Japan 3rd-6thc
Object: 直刀 sword
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Plain iron, Kofun period,
 excavated from Yashima village in Kotsuke
Japanese, about AD 600" ...


* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Sword, with Scabbard Mounts  Iron, gilt copper, silver  Probably Japanese, Kofun period, 6th century"
"Sword, with Scabbard Mounts  Iron, gilt copper, wood  Japanese, Kofun period, 6th century"
"Sword, with Scabbard Mounts  Iron, gilt copper  Japanese, Kofun period, 6th-7th century"
"Sword, with Scabbard Mounts  Iron, gilt bronze, gilt copper, silver  Japanese, Kofun period, 6th century"