n no country of the world, perhaps, has the sword This is seized with the tongs, heated up to a very parallel straight lines by pounding the edge of a played so great a part in the history of the people or high degree of temperature, removed from the fur- hatchet into the flat surface of the slab… … mono representing Kaneyama-hiko-no-kami, shape of a sword blade. This is a process Putting an Edge on the Sword. the patron god of swordmakers, and another requiring great manual dexterity acquired bearing in Chinese characters the name of Amaterasu- only by long practice, and the result is…
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