For many it was very much ceremonial and status symbol to carry them though and the wakisashi was more or less never used at all.
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PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 years agoThe Japanese used katanas as their daily carry weapon of choice. In fact, samurai would carry two swords with them!
However they had a very low crime rate. Ironic.
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
But not on the battlefield, they’d use naginata or something like it for that.
a naginata
TrundleTheGreat@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
Another naginta
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