Sengo Muramasa

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Sengo Muramasa was a famous swordsmith that founded the Muramasa school and lived during the Muromachi period of 16th century in Japan. It is said that Muramasa "was a most skillful smith but a violent and ill-balanced mind verging on madness, that was supposed to have passed into his blades....They were popularly believed to hunger for blood and to impel their warrior to commit murder or suicide."[citation needed] It is said that the famous Tokugawa Ieyasu was accidentally wounded Muramasa blades twice. Following this, Muramasa blades were banned by the Tokugawa Shogunate. Popular legends about Muramasa include a story of how a leaf floating down a stream would be cut in two by a Muramasa blade, while a leaf would float around a Masamune blade.

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