Higekiri is a sword which MINAMOTO no Mitsunaka is said to have had made in the Heian period, handed down, together with another sword, Hizamaru, through successive generations of the Minamoto clan.
髭切（ひげきり）とは、平安時代に源満仲が作らせたとされる刀で、膝丸とともに源氏重代の刀として伝えられている。