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> At least by the time of the 19th century, in no other place were there smiths willing to spend so much time with the sharpening and polishing of extra hard st
by rrr_oh_man 3y ago
> At least by the time of the 19th century, in no other place were there smiths willing to spend so much time with the sharpening and polishing of extra hard steel.
Because the rest of the world used rifles as a battlefield weapon, maybe.
- BalinKing 3y agoDidn't firearms play a major role in the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, as early as the beginning of the 1600s? I'm pretty sure that Japanese battles being sword-only is just a pop culture trope.