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The most common depiction, especially in the Western world, of the Katana is a weapon of unparalleled power, often bordering on the physically impossible. Katana are often depicted as being inherently "superior" to all other weapons possessing such qualities as being impossibly light, nigh-unbreakable and able to cut through nearly anything.
Kijin-marukuni-shige: A katana belonging to foreign-exchange student Susan in Chapter 1, Volume 8 of High School DxD. Rain Dragon: The sword owned by Judge Dee in the novels of Robert van Gulik; Shisui: Shisui (止水; Stopping Water) is a white-wood shirasaya (a katana without a tsuba/guard) wielded by Motoko Aoyama throughout most of Love ...
The Masamune sword is by far the most referenced Japanese sword in popular fiction, ranging through books, movies and computer games. Murasame – A magical katana that mentioned in fiction Nansō Satomi Hakkenden , it said the blade can moist itself to wash off the blood stain for keeping it sharp.
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(see image) [4] [18] kōgai (笄) – a skewer for the owner's hair-do, carried in a pocket of the scabbards of katana and wakizashi on the side opposite of the kozuka. [33] [34] kogatana (小刀) – any knife, particularly a small utility knife carried in a pocket of the scabbards of katana and wakizashi. ko-itame-hada (小板目肌) – see ...
Wazamono (Japanese: 業 （ わざ ） 物 （ もの ）) is a Japanese term that, in a literal sense, refers to an instrument that plays as it should; in the context of Japanese swords and sword collecting, wazamono denotes any sword with a sharp edge that has been tested to cut well, usually by professional sword appraisers via the art of tameshigiri (test cutting).
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