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    Japanese Swords
    Japanese Swords
    Japanese Swords
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    Japanese Swords

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Japanese Swords - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Japanese Swords, by Anonymous

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Japanese Swords

      Author: Anonymous

      Release Date: November 8, 2012 [EBook #41321]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JAPANESE SWORDS ***

      Produced by Paul Clark, David Edwards and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      Transcriber's Note:

      Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible. Some apparent errors in the use of diacritical marks have been amended.

      Larger versions of the plates may be seen by clicking on the images.

      JAPANESE SWORDS

      YAMANAKA & CO.

      127, New Bond Street, London.

      April, 1913.

      JAPANESE SWORDS

      MONGST the numberless articles of Japanese attire, works of art or mere household objects which the Restoration of 1868 compelled the Japanese to cast upon the market, none has met with such wide fame and yet with such a limited study as the Sword. When, in 1877, the Government prohibited the Samurai from wearing any longer the two swords which had been the privilege and distinctive mark of their martial caste, the Imperial wish was obeyed, notwithstanding the feeling that something was snapping in the life of the nation. Blades had been treasured for centuries, handed from father to son, looked upon as the soul of the owner for the sake of which he would refrain from any deed unbecoming a gentleman; some possessed histories going far back into the eleventh

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