Kusanagi

Kusanagi, also known as Kusanagi Tsurugi, is a weapon in the series.
== History==
Originally called Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, it was the sword obtained from Yamata-no-Orochi's corpse after Susano-o slayed it with a after the Yamata no Orochi fell into a drunken stupor from potent sake. During the process of chopping up the beast, Susano-o's blade Ame-no-Habakiri broke when he went to one of the Orochi's tails. Curious, he used the stub of his broken blade to excavate the tail in question, and from it, came this sword. The sword was then given to his sibling Amaterasu as atonement for his previous actions which had caused him to be banished, and was made into one of the Three Sacred Treasures.
A later legend is the source of the name "Kusanagi." When Yamato-Takeru was unofficially banished by his father, Emperor Keiko, who had feared his son, he was gifted the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi by his aunt Yamatohime-no-Mikoto, along with some fire strikers. When he was trapped by fire by the actions of a treacherous warlord, he desperately cut the burning grass in an bid to escape, but by doing so, he discovered the ability to manipulate the wind and have it follow his sword's swings. Using both the blade and the fire strikers, he was able to turn the fire against his would-be killers. Yamato Takeru then renamed the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi into the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, meaning "Grass-cutting sword", commemorate his harrowing victory.
==Appearances==
*Megami Tensei II
*Shin Megami Tensei
*Shin Megami Tensei NINE
*Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE
*Shin Megami Tensei IV: Quest Item
*Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis
*Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
*Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
*Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon
*Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
*Megami Ibunroku Persona: as Kusanagi's Sword
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
*Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: as Kusanagi no Tsurugi
*Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE: as Kusanagi no Tsurugi
==Profile ==
===Shin Megami Tensei IV===
Kusanagi Tsurugi is a special item obtained for the Challenge Quest Resurrection of the Kousoushin. The Law demon Alciel has hidden it within his domain in Ginza.
==Stats==
===Megami Tensei II===
===Shin Megami Tensei===
The Kusanagi is the first sword obtained that can be used for Sword fusion. It can be fused with Element Sylph to create the Futsu Sword.
===Shin Megami Tensei NINE===
===Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE===
===Majin Tensei II: Spiral Nemesis===
===Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner===
===Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers===
===Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon===
===Megami Ibunroku Persona===
===Persona 2: Eternal Punishment===
===Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth===
The Kusanagi no Tsurugi is a weapon for Junpei Iori and the P4 hero. It can be purchased from the Handcrafted Workshop for after selling one Orochi Tail, obtained by sacrificing Orochi in a Sacrifice Spread in the Velvet Room.
===Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE===
The Kusanagi no Tsurugi is a weapon for Yashiro Tsurugi. With it, Navarre can use the skills Lance Parry, Inferno Strike, Freezing Strike, Practice, and Early Bird.
==Gallery==
File:Sword of Kusanagi TCG.jpg|Kusanagi in the TCG
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