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>>142439 it might sound as a stupid question, but you did try http://www.bladeshark.com/ already, right? i know it's an obvious first choice, but some ppl don't know... so just checking.
>>142583 what would like to debate about? sword classification? there are various classifications, for example according to time of forgery you can split Japanese swords into jokoto, koto, shinto, shinshinto, gendaito and shinsakuto [hope I got spelling right, I'm to lazy to look it up in the books xD]. If you are asking for my opinion on word tachi - it means blade. Early straight bladed swords that were very strongly influenced by Chinese ones of longer sizes were referred to tachi as well. Kanata is a bit more 'specific' kind of tachi and the term was created later. Early tachi imitated tsurugi only had one cutting edge - but you can't call those katana at all. So in other words tachi is a more general term then katana.
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