That one’s supposedly 1000 years old. Wish I copied the text from the article; they knew the maker and that there were apparently 5 others just like it. They knew some of the owners through its legendary history.
If the real Excalibur turned up on Faggot Island… some fat smarmy land whale or soy faced twat like Kier Starmer would have it thrown into the shredder!
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In Japan such weapons with carefully recorded histories are quite common. An acquaintance at the rod n’ gun club collects them and he has a nasty little dirk - can’t remember what the Japs call them - that was 700 years old. The blade was hacked and the story was that the samurai that owned it got jumped by some black heart and he caught a lethal downswing with the dirk and then shoved it up his assailant’s gizzard for launching such a dishonourable surprise attack.
It’s probly all BS but who knows. Fakes are everywhere in the curio and relic world and I wouldn’t trust anyone in that racket.
A friend of mine from high school, one of his much older family members had one of those super rare Jap swords as a war trophy from WWII. He had to keep moving it and hiding it with friends, which is how my friend got a chance to hold it and play with it a little. He said it was super fucking sharp but smaller and lighter than you would think. Things was, the Jap consulate kept petitioning the US govt to find the sword and return it cause, you know, culture and history and all that shit. My personal opinion is them slant eyes lost the fucking war, so fuck them. But the cuck govt perps kept looking for it anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the stylized tanto tip of the sword isn't historically accurate, or so I've read. That would make the one pictured a fake.
Would the "dirk" be a "tanto"? There are four different sized blades in that "Samurai" category, as I recall. Can't remember the names of the others, but the Tanto knife is the shortest ... and easiest to remember.
ReplyDeleteTanto, Wakazashi, Katana, and Odachi, if I'm remembering them correctly. Roughly equivalent to daggers, longer daggers (not quite arming swords), longswords, and bastard swords for Euro blades, though I won't claim to be 100% correct on this stuff. Most of what little I know is third- or fourth-hand at best, filtered through several layers of entertainment osmosis and performative chest-pounding.
DeleteMaybe it's 99% fake, but at least the Japanese celebrate their history rather than despise it.