hiza-kiri

Updated: May 19, 2025

*See Murdoch's History of Japan. This was the culmination of the Taira's fortunes. There was at that time among the Kyoto officials a Minamoto named Yorimasa, sixth in descent from Minamoto Mitsunaka, who flourished in the tenth century and by whose order the heirloom swords, Hige-kiri and Hiza-kiri, were forged.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era