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Matthew01
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Please help, my wife bought me a Katana for my b-day a while back and I do not know what the writing says. Can anyone tell me what it means?
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or maybe they won't. Often when I ask Japanese people how to pronounce a particular name they can't say for certain. These characters can have multiple readings, and they get particularly dodgy in names.
What good is a katana if it can't slice some fruit?
Please don't actually do this.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
But yeah, if it is showa, the "wa" character looks pretty darn odd.
The 和 looks fine to me. I'm not completely sold on the 2. It's pretty dark and hard to see, though.
There are more formal versions of the characters for numbers, since it's pretty easy to change the simple ones (see here). I'm guessing his girlfriend saw the last character as 弐.
Why not? As long as he cleans it afterwards, chop all the bananas, apples, and oranges you want!
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
An actual layered steel katana should be able to stand up to slicing some fruits...
But that's getting a bit off the topic.
Neat enough, apparently katanas were usually crafted with pig iron, which is what made the smiths so adamant about proper techniques. It was the only way to make the sword not terribad.
It depends on the time period! In the Edo period swords were firmly associated with nobles. But early Samurai focused on archery, it's true.
Only a certain portion of katana blades were traditionally made with pig iron. The core was typically iron with a lower carbon content whereas the rest of the blade was a mixture of very high carbon containing steel mixed with pig iron. Almost all of the iron used in katana crafting was Iron Sand.