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Samurai Sword Basics, A Brief History

Capturing the spirit of old Japan and cutting edge faced upwards.
recognised by its deadly curvature, the The craft of forging katana samurai
samurai sword is widely recognised swords peaked during 1190 - 1337 - many
throughout the world as the most deadly of the swords from this area we're
of all Japanese weaponry. Although assigned national treasures. Thousands of
gaining modern fame and notoriety in swords are still circulated and collected
modern epic cinema in such films as The from more recent times; the most popular
Last Samurai and the Kill Bill series by 'collection' era's being WW1 and WW2.
Quentin Tarantino, samurai swords have eBay is a great place to find both old
long being an iconic symbol of Japan and and new samurai swords, but beware of
its history. what you're buying - a lot of swords sold
The most famous samurai sword, the today are machine replicas and only fit
Katana, is curved and bladed only on one for display purposes.
side - if you have seen Kill Bill, you There were however many types of samurai
will know exactly what I'm talking about. swords and the other often mentioned
The Katana was developed in the 10th includes shorter swords, one being the
century to enable Japanese calvery to wakizashi (shoto) and the tanto knife.
carry out surprise attacks on their enemy Only the samurai were allowed to carry
and was worn hung from the belt with the these as a pair.




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