The Katana, The Soul of The Samurai
Has a huge fan and sword collectors i am always on the look for my future acquisition when i am on down times. One Type of swords that i am simply crazy about are Samurai swords.
The Samurai sword also called the Katana is probably the most advance sword ever forged in the history. It is important to understand that the term Katana is often usesd incorrectly as a generic name for a Japanese sword. This is wrong, there are actually a lot of different Japanese swords, the katana is simply the weapon of choice used by most samurai.
Katana were often paired with the Wakizashi or “Shoto” which is similar but smaller version of the Katana. Katana were mostly worn by the warrior class. Some warrior were also wearing the Tanto which the smaller version (The size of a dagger). The weapons combined togheter were called the Daisho and were considered by Samurai to be linked with their honour and for some, their soul.
As you can imagine, there are so mouch more that can be said about the Katana, the wakizashi and even the tanto, let’s just start by saying that these sword are amazing.
As a fan of every type of sword, we will also talk about the various swords that were seen in history, like the Medieval swords, roman and viking swords, ninja weapons and more…
That should be interesting don’t you think?
Talk to You Soon!