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Kusanagi no Tsurugikusanagi-no-tsurugi
Also known as: 草薙剣・天叢雲剣・Sword of the Gathering Clouds・Ame-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi
The sacred sword enshrined at Atsuta Jingu as one of Japan's three Imperial Treasures. According to mythology, the blade was discovered inside an eight-headed serpent and later renamed Kusanagi ('grass cutter') by the hero Yamato Takeru after he used it to escape a grass fire.
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