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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.
SPD practice Katana: A basic katana for practice. Shadow Saber : The personal blade of the Shadow Ranger. Excelsior : A sword sought by Thrax, it was held by a female statue that eventually came to life after seeing the determination of the then-powerless Operation Overdrive Rangers and deemed them worthy of wielding the sword.
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.
' dull-edged sword '; gatana is rendaku of katana) is a short comedic jidaigeki about a dim-witted self-appointed samurai. He gets fooled and buys a dull sword from a merchant. The samurai, trying to figure out why his new sword cannot cut anyone he strikes, tries desperately to attack random townspeople who defend themselves and knock him out.
The Sword of Doom is an adaptation of Daibosatsu Toge (lit. ' Great Bodhisattva Pass '), a novel that has remained popular since its initial release in 1913, a year after the death of the Emperor Meiji, "the ruler who oversaw Japan's transition from hermetically sealed feudal state to modern nation."
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At its most prosaic, science fiction features an endless variety of sidearms—mostly variations on real weapons such as guns and swords. Among the best-known of these are the phaser—used in the Star Trek television series, films, and novels—and the lightsaber and blaster—featured in Star Wars movies, comics, novels, and TV shows.
The word katana first appears in Japanese in the Nihon Shoki of 720. The term is a compound of kata ("one side, one-sided") + na ("blade"), [6] [7] [8] in contrast to the double-sided tsurugi. The katana belongs to the nihontō family of swords, and is distinguished by a blade length (nagasa) of more than 2 shaku, approximately 60 cm (24 in). [9]