Talk:Skana/@comment-216.134.164.232-20130913214102/@comment-124.168.179.150-20141010095613

tamehagane means iron sand, it wasnt used to remove the carbon but becsuse it was high carbon. high carbon steel blase are sharp, very sharp , but the problem with very sharp high carbon swords was the fact that they were brittle prone to chips, now the japanese countered thid problem by golding said syteel so more layers equsls thicker equals hsrfer to chip, now when you talk about battle effiency the thought that a jatana ciuld be brroken or chipped enough i render it usekess was highly unlike unless the blacksmith wanted u dead, theres test on youtube that has been done against machine gun bullets check it for yourself ,but in a 1on1 against european swords of the time it did have certain weaknesses such as being overpowerd by european broadswords as they were much thicker and made more for hitting and bashing the opponrnts best way to see it is  a katana is more of a dlashing sword whilst the broadsword was more of a hit badh or poke/ stabbing sword, but by no means does that mean it is not as good , it is probably the most accurate to say it depends on the weilder if it was melee vs melee, bring it to a gunfight and the same will happen   like the dmaurais vs the english back jap army which was thee end of the smaurai era. musashi miyamoto was a japanese legend he invented the two sw ord swordstyle which is described in the book of five  rings, tho he ie is im sure a brilliant swordsman i do believe much of his legends were exagrrrated.. just had to wrute alk.this because this comment replies are so full of misinformation