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PA Wellington Mr Masao Nakayama will leave Wellington today a million yen poorer than when he arrived but 13 samurai swords up. Mr Nakayama, a Tokyo real estate agent, arrived in Wellington last week seeking thousands of samurai swords abandoned in the Pacific by defeated Japanese troops. The swords were among weapons surrendered to New Zealand and Australian troops by Japanese occupying the Pacific during World War 11.
A collector of samurai swords for 30 years, Mr Nakayama described his visit to Wellington as “not so good, not so bad.”
“I looked at many more than 13 swords,” he said. “But some were not samurai swords and some people did not want to sell their swords. “They just wanted to show them to me and find out how much they were worth.”
Mr Nakayama said that he had paid YIM (about $4500) for the 13 samurai swords. He plans to spend two weeks in Melbourne and Bris-
bane buying more swords for his collection.
In Tokyo, Mr Nakayama has a collection of more than 100 swords. The swords were rarely used by Japanese troops: they were mainly symbolic in the tradition of the original samurai warriors.
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