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The most important, anyway, occurred in Momoyama era, when the Katana

finally replaced the Tachi as main sword of the Samurai.

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The difference between a ~~tachi~~ and a Katana is, to make ~~a incredible~~ diffucult

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The difference between a Tachi and a Katana is, to make an incredibly diffucult

thing the easiest possible, the position of the Mei (signature). The signature

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must be on the part of the blade that faces outside. So as ~~tachi~~ is worn

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must be on the part of the blade that faces outside. So as Tachi is worn

edge-down and Katana is worn edge-up, the signatures are placed in opposite

positions. Obviously this change was more a low evolution rather then a

suddenly revolution. So we have a lot of blades that are "in between"

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and that is, for now ~~betterr~~ to skip about.

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and that is, for now better to skip about.

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The wearing of DaiSho (long/short, meaning Katana and Wakizashi) begun

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in this period. Basically a backup blade was ''Italic text''always''Italic text''

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carried by Samurai, but the fashion of having a matched pair of mounting

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is what we inted for "DaiSho".

The following layout shows the main (NOT all) "Sugata" (shape) changes of the japanese sword with period and lenght (in shaku, 1 shaku = 30.3022 cm or 11.93 inches) from right to left, first line first. Obviously an infinite number of possible mix are found, but these are

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