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  2. Japanese swords in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Carrying a non-sealed katana is illegal in present-day Japan, but in fiction this law is often ignored or circumvented to allow characters to carry katana as a matter of artistic license. For instance, some stories state that carrying weapons has been permitted due to a serious increase in crimes or an invasion of monsters from other dimensions.

  3. List of fictional swords - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of magical weapons - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of Wazamono - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Hikoshiro Sadamune - Wikipedia

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    Higo Munekage Katana Kokon Mei Zukushi and other books listing Japanese sword smiths and blades list Motoshige as a student of Sadamune however Dr. Honma Junji disagrees with this in his book Nihon Koto Shi (History of Koto) By Dr. Honma Junji

  7. Sword and sorcery - Wikipedia

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    Other pulp fantasy fiction, such as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series and Leigh Brackett's Sea Kings of Mars, have a similar feel to sword and sorcery. But, because alien science replaces the supernatural, these books are usually described as planetary romance or sword and planet. They fall more in the area of science fiction. [56]

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    Escape the Crate offers the experience of an escape room, but delivered to the recipient’s home. Every game is complete with a theme, story, clues, and props, and can take several hours to crack ...

  9. Weapons in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    A subgenre of science fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, uses the aftermath of nuclear or biological warfare as its setting. The Death Star is the Star Wars equivalent to a weapon of mass destruction, and as such, might be the most well-known weapon of mass destruction in science fiction.