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Battles, incidents, and historical events related to Japanese swords
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Bunkyū 3 (1863) to Genji 1 (1864) (the period when Kondō's letters record his possession of a Kotetsu)
Kondō Isami, chief of the Shinsengumi, is said to have favored a sword by Nagasone Kotetsu, a master rated as saijō ō-wazamono. However, authentic Kotetsu works were already rare at the time and false signatures were rampant. The current accepted view is that the sword Kondō possessed was also a fake rather than an authentic work by Nagasone Okisato.
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