I do tend to like shorter blades so it maybe why I have never run into the problem. This is a very good point and something I hadn't thought of. But I find that with all the rules and suggestions about blade length and handle length you should just get what you feel most comfortable with if pssible With production blades we do often have to compromise. Now of course I won't pass up a good blade because it is 29" either. I don't know I'm 5'10" and I can honestly tell you I generally prefer a blade to be around 26". But more often I see people being told to use a longer blade because they are 5'9" or so. Yet commonly our production blades are on average 28-30". However wasn't the height of the average japanese man in the Edo period something like 5'2"? Much shorter than your average european or american of today. The one thing I find odd about this is that when I look at different nihonto(as I often do) I find that the majority of them have blades between 25-28". While this book is a work of historical fiction, it does illustrate my point about some schools being developed around using swords of a certain size.īut another thing that does go into what is considered proper blade length is a person's height. Gion Toji cuts him short saying "the Chujo style is for use with a sword much shorter than yours". He asks Kojiro where he learned swordsmanship and he first replies "I first mastered the Chujo style". I can remember a conversation from Eiji Yoshikawa's "Musashi" where Gion Toji from the Yoshioka school meets Sasaki Kojiro for the first time. Some schools don't so much have strict rules about sword size but the style is based on the using a sword of shorter or longer length. It is true that specific either have direct guidelines as to how long your blade and even handle should be.
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