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Originally Posted by estcrh
David, try Japanese swords, everything has a name and I mean everything!! And then there are the smiths and the schools etc etc.
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LOL! There are probably at least twice as many named parts to a keris blade as there is for a katana. That doesn't even begin to get into the variant dhapurs (blade profiles) and pamor patterns. And then the concepts of tangguh that categorize blades by era geography. Believe me the Japanese sword has nothing on keris when it comes to names and categories. Please, don't get me started.