The Zanbatou

Ah young sir, tho art influenced by the childishness in your soul that still believes cartoons are like real life. For unfortunatly you cannot purchase acme rocket packs for which to catch the roadrunner and so along these lines your kensin blade is simply a figment of a japanese animators mind.

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Wow..Thats from japan!!!! I thaught japan had laws or soemthing against making stuff like this or is that only importing stuff like this?

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Out of curiosity, I went and looked at some of their other swords. The results were not good. The had a saber that they were calling "Sword of Blackbeard the Pirate" which you would think might be a cutlass or a smallsword but looks more like the Mod. 1851 US Army Company Grade Officers' Saber to me. It certainly isn't a cutlas since it has a very narrow blade and is 36" long. Their Roman gladii are, quite simply, jokes, and not all that much ceaper than the ones from Albion which are infinitely better (see http://www.albionarmorers.com/[/i])... warning of, "Let the buyer beware." applies.
 
Oh yea..I should have discalimered that the store sells rubbish in general but the guys wants a zanba-errr-thina-ma-wotsit and these guys make one...Cnances of it being functional.........well none really.



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Hello,
The Zanbatou was existed in medeival, Warring state period in japan.
"Zanbatou" means the katana which has extremely long blade for cutting horse. Literally it was used to chop the legs of the horse opponent Samurai astride or hacking down the samurai itself in the battlefield. Generally the Katana in medieval time was strongly curved and the longer than that we use in Iaido now. It was meant for armor-clad samurai riding on the horse.The katana after medieval time, in relatively peace time,was made for quick deployment in plain clothes as EDC.
Zanbatou did not have the major role in melee even at that time. Using Yari(spear) or Naginata(long-handeled katana) as main weapon and katana as sub-weapon is general. And I think "Nodachi" is the more popular name for this kind of katana,but Zanbatou is more catchy and incite our imagination. I think there still be a traditional sword technique for Nodachi now.
 
That clarifies it, I remember seeing the Kenshin sword being called a Sakaba, that weird reverse wrong edged one. Zanbato is just a folklore/anime horse chopper.
 
@I have seen double edged katana called "Kogarasumaru"style just like Cold Steel reproduct now, but I have never seen the real SAKABATOU. It is also the figment La-la land dweller think of. It is only real in the childish animation "Rurouni Kenshin".
 
I've only seen one picture of a sakabatou, but it was no bigger than tanto size. Even then it might've only been someones "weird presentation knife". It's pretty much a sure bet that a katana size sakabatou is non-existent...unless an anime fan buys a stainless copy.

Tasogare, my little brother watches that show.:D
 
reverse blade katanas are hard to cut with. much like straight blades. also. drawing would be hard as the curved blades allow your hand to move in slightly as the sword exits the saya. this is hard to explain without actually showing you.
 
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