広島県立歴史博物館

The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History in Fukuyama is best known for its comprehensive display of the 'Kusado Sengen' medieval townsite — a bustling riverside trading city from the Kamakura through Muromachi periods, lost to floods in the 17th century and excavated to reveal extraordinary evidence of medieval Japanese daily life. The museum's sword collection focuses on the Bingo (eastern Hiroshima) tradition, particularly the 'Mihara-mono' (Mihara school) swords of master smiths including Masaie and successive Mihara smiths who flourished alongside Bizen. Swords and armor connected to the Mōri and Asano clans — the great daimyo who controlled Hiroshima domain — are also in the collection. Particularly rare are the excavated sword fragments from Kusado Sengen, offering archaeological evidence of medieval sword distribution and use.