Inariyama Sword

In 1978, X-ray analysis revealed a gold-inlaid inscription that comprises at least 115 Chinese characters.

The sword is designated a national treasure of Japan and is on display in the Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds.

[2] The original inscription and translation (by Murayama Shichirō and Roy Andrew Miller) is as follows.

[4] The person buried in the tomb, named Wowake, was an influential warrior in the region.

King Waka Takiru in the transcription is thought to be the same person as Ōhatsuse-wakatakeru-no-mikoto as mentioned in the Nihon Shoki, an alias of Emperor Yūryaku.