Wakizashi cutting tests

[Markus]

Nick, here is a pic of the karatake-wari cut. May I ask for your permission

to include this signature as a reference for Goto Gozaemon?

 

[Nickupero]

Hi Markus, Thank you for the attachment. Permission for the image is granted You can always contact me directly.

I don't have a larger image (thumbnail like) but is it not something like this also? Do you have this image in larger format?

Thanks

[Markus]

I have a larger pic but its description doesn´t say specifically it is for a karatake-wari cut.

It is a demonstration of a tsurushi-do or tsuri-do, a cut on a suspended felon. Tsurushi-do

"installations" varied and I will introduce several of them in my coming book.

 

[Ken-Hawaii]

My mentor & I had a nice discussion last night on which type(s) of wakizashi would be most likely to be used in battle. It was fairly obvious from the six we looked at that those with the largest sakihaba would be the most effective, especially against yoroi, not only from acting like a cleaver, but also because the extra niku would allow reshaping & resharpening if the tip broke or bent.

 

Of the wakizashi with cutting tests that our members have seen, how many of these were really "beefy?"

 

Ken

[Alex A]

Hi Ken, you bring up something i have thought about recently, sword size/cutting tests. Surely stouter heavier swords with wider sakihaba would have made better cutting swords. Mass x velocity= momentum. I think its fair to say that the rankings where not accurate. I suppose the attraction with these swords is the added historic value.