Tokijin
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Tōkijin, in the anime and manga InuYasha, is a possessed sword forged from the fangs of Goshinki, Naraku's detachment, at the request of Sesshomaru.
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Forging of the sword
When Goshinki attacks a village at the orders of Naraku, he encounters InuYasha and the group. While dueling with InuYasha, Goshinki is able to predict all of InuYasha's moves due to his telepathic powers. Finally, Goshinki seizes the Tessaiga using his fangs and the two are locked in a power struggle to free the sword. For the tremendous amount of stress applied to the sword, it cracks and snaps in half with many smaller fragments. InuYasha is knocked unconscious for a brief while, but he storms back in his transformed demon form and slices Goshinki into pieces.
Nevertheless, the feat of grasping the Tessaiga with his fangs and able to apply enough pressure to break it is mighty indeed for a demon. Sesshomaru arrives on the scene and he senses the events that took place. He brings the intact head of Goshinki to the evil swordsmith Kaijinbo, who was an apprentice of Totosai. Sesshomaru tells Kaijinbo of how the fangs of this demon had enough power to break the Tessaiga, the prized masterpiece of his former teacher whom he now despises, and requests him to craft a sword out of the fangs of this demon. Kaijinbo reasons that he cannot do so because the bones are dead and will not forge a great weapon. Sesshomaru, upon hearing this, draws the Tenseiga and revived the demon's head, its eyes gleam with evil.
When Jaken visits Kaijinbo's hut afterwards, seeking to know if the the sword has been completed, he stumbles upon a possessed Kaijinbo who is completely under the sword's evil aura. He kills Jaken with the sword and sets out to take revenge on InuYasha.
Demonic aura defeated
The sword bore the hatred of Goshinki, who is determined to kill InuYasha for killing him. Upon meeting InuYasha, he declares that this sword is the Tokijin, made from the fangs of the demon Goshinki. However, Kaijinbo is a swordsmith, not a warrior, and the powers of Goshinki overwhelmed him. Kaijinbo's body could not hold up against such strong forces of the Tokijin, and his body is obliterated. The sword is left standing in the ground, radiating demonic aura.
After reviving Jaken and learning what happened in the hut, Sesshomaru traced Kaijinbo to where he died and finds that InuYasha's group as well as Totosai are attempting to destroy the sword unsuccessfully. He sees the Tokijin, but Totosai warns him not to touch the sword for even he would be possessed by its power. Sesshomaru does not heed his warnings and pulls the sword from the ground, instantly defeating the demonic aura with his own power.
Then, he asks InuYasha to draw the Tessaiga and fight with him. Using the Tokijin, he is able to knock the Tessaiga out of InuYasha's grasp and he witnessed his transformation into a full demon. Before he could fully transform, Totosai and the group intervened, ending the battle before it got ugly.
Powers
The Tokijin, when compared to the Tenseiga and the Tessaiga, is weaker because Goshinki was a normal demon, not an entity like InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father, who was the lord of Demons in the West. Like the Tetsusaiga, it can release energy waves that appears to be equally destructive.
In the third movie of the InuYasha franchise, Sesshomaru almost throws away the Tokijin because it is nowhere near a match for the So'unga, the sword of world conquest, which had less damaging effects on the Tenseiga and the Tessaiga.
Destruction
It is broken later (in the manga) when it was used against Moryoumaru, who had absorbed Meioujuu's armor-shell.
Special Attacks
- Demon Aura: The sword has to ability to possess anyone not strong enough to control the aura. If controlled, the aura can be manipulated and be forced towards an opponent, forcing them away from the sword and causing them great pain. It also has the power to cut an opponent to pieces without even touching them.
- Souryuha: The ultimate attack of Tokijin. An attack that sends a great amount of demon energy at the enemy.