The episode has passed into Japanese mountaineering lore. On the 13th of July 1907 (Meiji 40), a government survey party reached the summit of Tsurugi, a mountain as sharp-edged and rugged as its name suggests. It turned out that they were not the first to visit what they had assumed to be an untrodden peak. They discovered a weathered spear tip and priest's staff—evidence that they were not, after all, the first to ascend the peak.
These relics can today be viewed at the Tateyama Museum in Toyama. Initial assessments dated the bronze alloy to the late Nara/early Heian period (~800AD).
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