Feng huh kinda like fang which is also a pointy thing wonder if that's a coincidence
Qiang > Gun > Dao > Jian
No I'm not taking questions don't @ me
it'd be neat to see early Japanese swords from the ancient period, forget what it was called.
The Heian period? Or are you talking even earlier?
Unfortunately I don't actually have a ton of Japanese swords (which is kind of weird considering the obscure African and Southeast Asian stuff I have, but I guess I just haven't ran into that many good images to download), and the few I do are more later period stuff. From what I know, the pre-katana/tachi swords were called chokuto, and would have actually been pretty similar to Chinese dao of the period, so you'd get stuff like the LK Chen Sui Dao that I posted earlier, and later on they'd be more like Tang-era dao swords, which have a more angular tip (which is likely where the katana's distinctive tip comes from).
Yeah I was talking about that, the early periods wherein the swords were shorter and straight like the Chinese straight swords. No biggie if you can't do it.
