This is the sword license for the Mototake that was issued on March 26th 1951 # 709. However on January 27th 2003 the orginal licensed paper was damaged and a new paper was issued by the Kagoshima BOE. However the orginal number was kept. Its also interesting that this license was issued in the home province of the sword. This means because of the early number it was never taken out of Japan. In Japan after the sword and gun law came into effect; this was really done to prevent National and Important Cutural Properties from leaving the country; ex-daimyo and kuge families usually were the very first ones to register their swords and I think this Mototake was an daimyo stock from the castle at Kagoshima.
