{"id":3420,"date":"2017-06-07T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T16:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samuraischwert.kaufen\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:53:41","slug":"tentetsutou-meteorite-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuraischwert.kaufen\/en\/samuraischwert\/geschichte\/beruehmte-schwerter\/tentetsutou-meteoritenschwert\/","title":{"rendered":"Tentetsutou - The Meteorite Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tentetsutou - The sword from a meteorite<\/h2>\n

The Tentetsutou (\u5929\u9244\u5200), which translates as \"sword of heaven\", is probably the most famous sword made by master swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara. Its entire blade is made from a fragment of metreoite mass. This comes from the Gibeon meteorite, which consists of 91.8 % iron. The first fragments of the meteorite were found in 1836 near the town of Gibeon in Namibia. Scientists estimate its age at 4 billion years.<\/p>\n

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Chunk of the Gibeon meteorite (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to some sources, fragments of the Gibeon meteorite were used by locals to make weapons and tools as early as the late 1830s.
\nThe British officer and travel writer Sir James Alexander collected samples of these weapons on site and had them analysed by the renowned chemist John Herschel in London. It was possible to verify that the material used was meteorite mass that did not originate from Earth.<\/p>\n

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The sword is a true masterpiece of swordsmithing.
\nThe elaborate inscription on the blade with Japanese characters and the hamon (hardening line) of the sword are particularly eye-catching. A sword out of this world!<\/p>\n

It can be viewed in the exhibition of the Chiba Institute of Technology in the SkyTree Tower in Tokyo (http:\/\/www.it-chiba.ac.jp<\/a>). In addition to the sword, a chunk of the Gibeon metreoite is also on display there to illustrate the material from which the sword was made. The Twitter user Zan_Woo<\/span>\u00a0shows us these images of the sword:<\/p>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/xpVdflYi5M<\/a><\/p>\n

- \u30b6\u30f3\u30fb\u30a6\u30fc\uff1a\u4e9c\u4eba\u5e3d\u5b50\u306e\u7537 (@Zan_Woo) 10 May 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n