Hasekura Tsunenaga
The Sendai City Museum displays the oldest surviving kastane 'Lion' hilt which belonged to "daimyō" Hasekura Tsunenaga dating from circa 1600 AD, albeit on a hybrid blade. A depiction of the same blade with a different hilt in the hand of a Sinhala chief thought to be Kuruvita Rala or Rathnayake Mudiyanse, is displayed on a Portuguese stone slab near the Maha Saman devalaya, Ratnapura.