Being extremely hard, therefore sharp. It can hold its edge longer than European and Chinese blades because of the way it is made. It is however, very inflexible as a result. Whereas a Chink Jian and a European broadsword will flex, the Katana and other Japanese swords made in the same fashion will just bend and stay bent. The true weapon of the samurai is the spear/glaive/musket. The katana is just some status symbol as aree other swords in every part of the world.
European swords were made to block and thrust through gaps in armor where you can easily miss and connect to pure steel. So they literally weigh 10x as much. Not really a fair comparison. They're designed for completely different purposes
>he's a longsword beta
Lol, lmao. Not to mention longswords are typically meant to be wielded with one hand..not two like the traditional katana stance.
[...] >he's a longsword beta
Lol, lmao. Not to mention longswords are typically meant to be wielded with one hand..not two like the traditional katana stance.
>they literally 10x as much >meant to be wielded with one hand
Fricking hell this has to be bait
t. video game expert
A quick googling shows the following >long sword, 80-110 cm blade length >1-1.5 kg >Katana >60-80 cm blade length >1.1-1.5kg
Youre a fricking moron. Swords are all incredibly light because you need to be swinging that shit for potentially long periods and need to be fast with it. Life isn't a fricking video game. have a nice day.
Unless they take a really bad bend you can just stick them into the ground and straighten them back. Furthermore, japanese swords were used extensively as battlefield weapons not just as peasant whacking devices.
Also, the samurai class had already existed for nearly 600 years when matchlocks were introduced to Japan.
The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi. Only when Samurai became more into the noble shit rather than mostly battlefield shit did the katana become popular.
>The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi.
Samurai were trained in Yari, Naginata, Yumi and Katana. Samurai are samurai because they are mounted, much like knights, they are a martial class that could afford horses. Nobody is going to charge to a battlefield with a fricking sword on horseback. They are horse archers and lancers. Only when dismouted to they become spearmen/swordsmen.
This is simply incorrect, Tachi are intended to be used one handed from horseback and have a small ring on the tsuka so you can tie the sword to your hand in case you drop it. Samurai did in fact use their swords from horseback.
>Samurai did in fact use their swords from horseback.
Yes a man walked on water and turned water to wine somewhere in the levant. Does this mean everyone can do that? Generally speaking, most samurai most likely used spears and bows while on horseback, much like everywhere else.
>The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi
It was the bow. The samurai of the Heian and Kamakura periods primarily fought as mounted archers because the people they were sent to fight (the Emishi) were themselves mounted archers. >Only when Samurai became more into the noble shit rather than mostly battlefield shit did the katana become popular.
This is absolutely untrue. The katana (as the uchigatana) first appears in the Muromachi period and becomes ubiquitous by the late 16th century. You would have seen katanas everywhere at Okehazama, Sekigahara, or the sieges of Osaka Castle; meanwhile, barely anybody would have been using a tachi by that point.
>The true weapon of the samurai is the spear/glaive/musket. The katana is just some status symbol as aree other swords in every part of the world.
Korean sources from the Imjin War constantly talk about how fierce the Japanese were with their swords and how often they used them. "Swords were sidearms" is true, "swords were just symbols and basically never used in combat" is bullshit. Ditto in Europe, swords were very commonly used because everyone had one and sometimes you need to fight hand-to-hand.
>imjin war >musket spamming won the day
The asiatics only praised jap swordsmanship because only japan bothered with swordsmanship to such an autistic level. No one else in the world had jap level of autism for swords.
Being extremely hard, therefore sharp. It can hold its edge longer than European and Chinese blades because of the way it is made. It is however, very inflexible as a result. Whereas a Chink Jian and a European broadsword will flex, the Katana and other Japanese swords made in the same fashion will just bend and stay bent. The true weapon of the samurai is the spear/glaive/musket. The katana is just some status symbol as aree other swords in every part of the world.
European swords were made to block and thrust through gaps in armor where you can easily miss and connect to pure steel. So they literally weigh 10x as much. Not really a fair comparison. They're designed for completely different purposes
???
European Long swords are not heavy
>So they literally weigh 10x as much
European longswords were literally lighter than katanas of comparable length you absolute twat
>he's a longsword beta
Lol, lmao. Not to mention longswords are typically meant to be wielded with one hand..not two like the traditional katana stance.
>they literally 10x as much
>meant to be wielded with one hand
Fricking hell this has to be bait
No one is that moronic. Its bait.
t. video game expert
A quick googling shows the following
>long sword, 80-110 cm blade length
>1-1.5 kg
>Katana
>60-80 cm blade length
>1.1-1.5kg
Youre a fricking moron. Swords are all incredibly light because you need to be swinging that shit for potentially long periods and need to be fast with it. Life isn't a fricking video game. have a nice day.
Unless they take a really bad bend you can just stick them into the ground and straighten them back. Furthermore, japanese swords were used extensively as battlefield weapons not just as peasant whacking devices.
Also, the samurai class had already existed for nearly 600 years when matchlocks were introduced to Japan.
The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi. Only when Samurai became more into the noble shit rather than mostly battlefield shit did the katana become popular.
>The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi.
Samurai were trained in Yari, Naginata, Yumi and Katana. Samurai are samurai because they are mounted, much like knights, they are a martial class that could afford horses. Nobody is going to charge to a battlefield with a fricking sword on horseback. They are horse archers and lancers. Only when dismouted to they become spearmen/swordsmen.
This is simply incorrect, Tachi are intended to be used one handed from horseback and have a small ring on the tsuka so you can tie the sword to your hand in case you drop it. Samurai did in fact use their swords from horseback.
Why do you insist upon bring wrong?
>Samurai did in fact use their swords from horseback.
Yes a man walked on water and turned water to wine somewhere in the levant. Does this mean everyone can do that? Generally speaking, most samurai most likely used spears and bows while on horseback, much like everywhere else.
>The true weapon of the first half of the Samurai era was the Tachi
It was the bow. The samurai of the Heian and Kamakura periods primarily fought as mounted archers because the people they were sent to fight (the Emishi) were themselves mounted archers.
>Only when Samurai became more into the noble shit rather than mostly battlefield shit did the katana become popular.
This is absolutely untrue. The katana (as the uchigatana) first appears in the Muromachi period and becomes ubiquitous by the late 16th century. You would have seen katanas everywhere at Okehazama, Sekigahara, or the sieges of Osaka Castle; meanwhile, barely anybody would have been using a tachi by that point.
>The true weapon of the samurai is the spear/glaive/musket. The katana is just some status symbol as aree other swords in every part of the world.
Korean sources from the Imjin War constantly talk about how fierce the Japanese were with their swords and how often they used them. "Swords were sidearms" is true, "swords were just symbols and basically never used in combat" is bullshit. Ditto in Europe, swords were very commonly used because everyone had one and sometimes you need to fight hand-to-hand.
>imjin war
>musket spamming won the day
The asiatics only praised jap swordsmanship because only japan bothered with swordsmanship to such an autistic level. No one else in the world had jap level of autism for swords.
the Japanese tactic was fire muskets + charge with swords.
>spear/glaive/musket
You mean the Yari/Naginata/Tanegashima dunce
The sheathe and long handle is kino der epic
For me, it's the tanto.
In Yakuza movies you know some shit is about to go down when somebody pulls out a dosu
Sexy form. It just makes me want to run my finger down its slightly curved backside.
Weeaboo obsession in the early days of the internet, when anime was just reaching out into the nerdier corners of the West. That's it.