Could someone carry around a nodachi, for personal use like the katana, if it was short? Not super short were lines would blur but short enough to be drawn from the hip.
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Why is the katana (a two-handed sword) the same length as an arming sword (one-handed), and why the nodachi would be a better two-handed sword compared to the katana? : r/SWORDS
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