Faceted Tips on Chinese Swords? (Split from HOS Catalogue thread)

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Originally Posted by josh stout

An interesting thought is that early Ming jain sent to Tibet as a gift from the emperor look Tibetan, perhaps blades sent to Japan look Japanese?

Josh, doesn't work.
At that time (we're talking about 550/650 A.D.) japaneses plainly
copied almost everything from dresses to laws to army organization from
China. They hadn't a proper design for blades yet. They begun to produce
them on their own with the original chinese shape and only around 950 A.D.
they applied curvature to achieve a completely original japanese sword
design, still called with a chinese name, "Tachi".