japanese landscape

Chapter III
A friend is a friend even if you’re differences are great


The samurai’s name was Daiki and he has no surname because he severed all ties to his family when he thought that they where a disgrace to his personal honor and from there on he did nothing but travel and sharpen his skills at swordsmanship. Other than the samurai part he isn’t much like me, he has an interest in the western nations and even has a western concealed knife, as for me I hate the west and live only for Japan and I have a Japanese sword. He also was once the son of a rich samurai and I’m the son of a samurai...

the samuria where masters of many weapons, one samurai may know how to best use a katana, odachi, yumi, yari, naginata, chokuto, and to do it all on horseback

the iconic weapon for the samurai is the katana, the curved sword of the samurai and 100% pure japanese. this weapon was made to be razor sharp, sharper than any European sword at the time. the katana had a blade about 27 inches long in the blade and 11-12 inches in the handle, with this long handle the samurai could take advantage of leverage and make a much harder swing. during the edo era of Japan the sword forgers made the tsuba (handguard)...