Looking for photos and acomp. articles about sword finds

[Drago]

Hi,

 

I think I remember reading a thread where someone mentioned opening Date Masamune's grave and finding swords in it. That sounded very interesting.

 

That is why: I am looking for photos and perhaps acompanying online articles about Japanese swords found during archeaological digs, grave openings/restorations etc. The photos should be of a good quality and size (nothing ridiculous like 200x300 pixles...). If there are text acompanying these photos (whether scientific, newspaper etc) even better.

 

Everything should be available online and free.

 

Thank you very much.

[Drago]

Bumping a little.

[Peter Bleed]

Tobais,

One of the great disappointments of my life has to be that I was NOT in the Archaeology Lab of Tohoku University when they excavated Masamune's tomb ay Zuihoden. I was there just before that project and returned just after, but I missed the event and actually heard little about it. The work was over seen by Ito Nobuo and supervised by Michio Okamura. I have seen the report, but do not own one and believe that they are hard to get. This is the ref. I think the work was done in about 1972 so tere may not be lots of video.

 

Ito, Nobuo (ed.) Zuiho-den, the Tomb and the Relics of Date Masamune (Zuiho-den Date Masamune no haka to sono ihin), 　Society for the reconstruction of Zuiho-den, 1979 (In Japanese)

 

Best of luck,

Peter