Talk:Skana/@comment-216.134.164.232-20130913214102/@comment-122.111.5.203-20131211140956

musashi miyamoto was well known to use "cheap" blades, as expensive high quality blades would easily chip on contact with another sword

his successful fighting style was partly due to him not being shy to make direct edge contanct with his opponent edge on edge and in his opinion a lower quality but still functional and well balanced sword was better for killing opponents in duels than a super high quality sword

of all the ancient steels and sword blade tempering techniques the japanese is rated to be the best but their swords themselves are not considered to be the best for battlefield usage, they are however considered one of the best for dueling

originally the japanese sword was simply a backup weapon when the bow and spear was exhausted, it wasnt until much later in peaceful times when people wore no armor that the katana became so popular

a 5 body blade was able to cut thru 5 people, but it was never meant to mean it could cleave thru 5 human torsos which would be impossible for any human to generate enough force with a sword as light as a katana, it just means it was able to cut so well as to slice thru 5 peoples flesh inline