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This is the sword that Ryu Hayabusa carries in the Ninja Gaiden games. It was modeled and rendered in modo (Photoshop for the handle weave texture), no post-production. Comments/critiques (especially regarding making it more realistic) welcome! The kanji is for "dragon sword".
A couple closeups of the hilt/handle are here (also, in these images, I used the imageSynth plugin for Photoshop to generate the ground texture from a photograph):
http://www.cgrenaissance.com/images/dragonsword/final1.jpg
http://www.cgrenaissance.com/images/dragonsword/final2.jpg