Katana , Is it the most Viable Sword ?
Katana was first created in 10th Century in Japan , for Japonese warriors after their services in fighting the feodals and it still keeps its title as the worlds sharpest sword. Lets take a closer look to katana one of the important pillars of the Japanese culture.
When there were Samurais around in that era only people allowed from Daimyo can carry these sword and short sword Wakizashi. It was symbolising that the person carrying it was an important person.
The main aspects which make katana different from other swords are the building part and using part. It is a creation of an art that is almost 1000 years old. This sword made from 3 different type of steel with different carbon levels and it has an aerodinamic edge. The sides made from middlelevel carbon steel and the inner part is made of lower level carbon steel and the sharp part and the top of it made by highest carbon level steel , therefore when you water the sword it gets that slighlty deadly curve.
Katana is a decent sword with durability. They make it not to stand in long fights but the main purpose was kill the opponent with single blow. Katana usually don't get used for stabbing action it is for slicing. Only making the blade part of the katana doesn't make your job finish , the entire part of the sword requires lots of labour , it is holding part tsuka and it is protection part tsuba it all requires lots of effort and sweat. Even making this sword sharper is a form of art.
As I said the main purpose of using katana is killing the enemy with 1 blow , therefore the katanas one side is quite sharp and you can easily swing it and in order to create some momentum to the user it is slightly curve , eventhough this curve doesn't preffered it can be used to be stab your opponent too.
As we all know from kill bill it is an original samurai sword and if you deserve it as a smurai , a special master will forge katana for you , making one amazing katana takes approximetaly 1 , 1-5 year. It can easily make in shorter time however it is the accurate time for the real masters. Because of using style of katana you need to hold it with 2 hands and in order to prevent slipping in a deathly duel it made their holding part from shark leather.
That's a great article. If I may I would add one or few things since this is a topic close to my field of interest. First of all, I like how you didn't present the Katana as some kind of mythical and unbreakable sword, which is often the case. So just a two additional info dumps:
"making one amazing katana takes approximetaly 1 , 1-5 year"
Wow how much do these things costs then. I like to have a katana. I think I would use it as decoration.
Yeah man I got 1 as a decoration but cheap ass replica 90 bucks :D
I got one of those too, it's not even sharpened and i bought it for 30 bucks lol.
Gotta keep my eye out on those hahah
Haha :D
nice post and pix
Thanks man
I wanted to buy katana, now I want more: D
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Katanas are great for cloth or light armor I'd say. Put them against plate armors and they won't stand a chance. Ah who am I kidding no sword had a chance, that's when you resort to pommel bashing :).
In addition to being one of the swords with more history in the world. It is the one that has the most accurate and best-made edge in all history, there is no sword like this Japanese ninjas that cut more. Great feats have been carried in history with this sword and so impressive is that in present times it is still used.
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