Battle damage

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Originally Posted by Sancar

I know almost nothing about Nepalese history, though this quote reminded me of a Japanese historian acquaintance of mine, who once told me that "other than some duel or two, and some minor local skirmishes, Tokugawa shogunate samurai katanas are used mostly to cut down armless poor peasents for even tiniest hints of perceived insolance."

I believe that's correct, its not realy my subject , but I have the impression the koto era swords were the battle pieces, after 1600 it was as you say & the swords developed a more showy blade construction often more for looks rather than the koto looks of the hada & hamon mostly being more a side effect of the construction for strength using the limited materials available that came about.

Of course some ww2 era Gunto pieces like the koa isshin etc. went back to placing strength before beauty.

I believe he post ww2 pieces have degraded {IMHO}more often than not to placing beauty before function.

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