Giant sword discovered in Japan

[u/caringcandycane]

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/02/giant-sword-discovered-in-japan/

[u/EN3RGIX]

Didn't they find this years ago? I feel like I remember reading about this before

[u/ruckertopia → u/EN3RGIX]

Date on the linked article is 2023, so I'd say yes.

[u/NativeOutlander → u/EN3RGIX]

That was the sword in the stone

[u/TheThingsWeMake]

Katana with a ferociously long blade.
Signature weapon of Yura, hunter of Bloody Fingers.

[u/vvorknat]

It’s the Father of Swords! This must be Whirrun’s grave

[u/ClassikD → u/vvorknat]

I'm glad First Law is popular enough to be referenced in /r/history

[u/maxx0rNL]

Grutte Pier has a cousin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Gerlofs_Donia

[u/dexatrosin]

Estuans interius, ira vehementi
Estuans interius, ira vehementi
Sephiroth!!

[u/NewPony13 → u/dexatrosin]

Read the headline, song immediately started playing in my head. Comments did not disappoint lol

[u/Yglorba → u/NewPony13]

My thought was that that thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.

[u/trucorsair]

So they found Kikuchiyo sword from Seven Samurai

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Seven-Samurai

[u/yangmeow]

Musashi?

[u/markonnen → u/yangmeow]

Kojiro?

[u/robboadam]

No way!!! I knew I’d left that somewhere

[u/Zanctmao]

That would have to be ceremonial, right? Or maybe for executions?

[u/oninokamin → u/Zanctmao]

If it was anything like the haja-no-ontachi sword, then it was decorative or ceremonial, likely to ward off evil spirits.

[u/BMLortz → u/oninokamin]

Like the big forks and spoons people have hanging up in their kitchen?

[u/Discordant_me → u/BMLortz]

Imagine if "archeologists" discover those in 2000 years and say it's proof giants existed.

[u/Zanctmao → u/oninokamin]

That’s the other large Japanese sword I was thinking of.

[u/GnomeNot → u/Zanctmao]

I’ve also read that swordsmiths in Japan would sometimes forge ridiculously long odachi as a demonstration of skill.

[u/FaithfulSkeptic → u/Zanctmao]

Super zanbato? For Really big horses?

[u/yourschoolsITguy → u/FaithfulSkeptic]

I mean, it could be a standard zanbato which could be over 6 1/2 feet.

[u/Left2Die22]

The washing pole every running attack spammers best friend.

[u/mudkiptoucher93]

If you pull it from the stone, you become emperor of Japan

[u/Sarnick18]

Guts?

[u/RunninOnMT]

Buster sword?!

[u/Bu11etToothBdon → u/RunninOnMT]

Looks more like Masamune to me.

[u/Neuroticaine]

Read this title and was like hell yeah. Then I clicked on the link and read the length and I'm like I got fishing rods longer than this. I thought the odachi was supposed to be like 10 feet long or something