And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I believe it is called a "NODACHI" . It is approximately 57 inches long with a 34 inch blade. Difficult to wield correctly as it is also a heavy 4.5 lbs.
I cannot read this, but my wife can. The vertical writing says, "rikugun chujyou (his rank) senba taro (his name) kakka go kigou (wrote this scroll)" The writing at the bottom says, "hira oka (family name) fu'un no iaijutsu no naka ni (fast draw swordsmanship) sanjyaku hassun (length of blade) no choujin (long sword)"
Samurai you mentioned was Sasaki Kojiro, who used a nodachi called monohoshizao (Clothes drying rod--as you wrote). The duel was in 1612. The historical fiction book Musashi, by Yoshikawa Eiji, ends with the story of that duel. Reading that book at age 16 started my age-long obsession with Japan.
There were a series of three movies based on the book starring Toshio Mifune, those used to be the New Years Eve entertainment for my late wife and myself.
The Japanese love their swords. They used them a lot on POW's in WW2. I've been to the monument rock on Wake Island where they beheaded 93 Americans mostly civilians with that same type of sword because they couldn't feed them anymore due to lack of supplies after the war got hot.
Like high powered cars and big caliber guns long swords are compensators for a small penis size
ReplyDeleteDare ya to tell him that. I'll bet he'd reach out and compensate your penis size, in a jiffy, with just the slightest twitch.
DeleteThe dude is wearing a skirt fercrissakes
DeleteHerpin n a-derpin all up in this shit again, boggy?.... Pace yourself, son.
DeleteAbout the last thing I expected from you Boggy
ReplyDeleteWell, he would know, I'm sure.
DeleteIt's called a "tachi".
ReplyDeleteI believe it is called a "NODACHI" . It is approximately 57 inches long with a 34 inch blade. Difficult to wield correctly as it is also a heavy 4.5 lbs.
ReplyDeleteAnyone able to translate and explain the picture. This appears to be a very serious man.
ReplyDeleteI cannot read this, but my wife can.
ReplyDeleteThe vertical writing says, "rikugun chujyou (his rank) senba taro (his name) kakka go kigou (wrote this scroll)"
The writing at the bottom says, "hira oka (family name) fu'un no iaijutsu no naka ni (fast draw swordsmanship) sanjyaku hassun (length of blade) no choujin (long sword)"
One of the famous samurai of Japan had a long sword named "The Clothes-rod".
ReplyDeleteHe dueled Musashi Miyamoto.
Samurai you mentioned was Sasaki Kojiro, who used a nodachi called monohoshizao (Clothes drying rod--as you wrote). The duel was in 1612. The historical fiction book Musashi, by Yoshikawa Eiji, ends with the story of that duel. Reading that book at age 16 started my age-long obsession with Japan.
DeleteThere were a series of three movies based on the book starring Toshio Mifune, those used to be the New Years Eve entertainment for my late wife and myself.
DeleteYes, the Samurai Trilogy. Great movies from the 50's. I haven't seen those in years.
DeleteThe Japanese love their swords. They used them a lot on POW's in WW2. I've been to the monument rock on Wake Island where they beheaded 93 Americans mostly civilians with that same type of sword because they couldn't feed them anymore due to lack of supplies after the war got hot.
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