Probably the most well-known duel in Japanese history took place between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kujiro, in which Musashi fought with a wooden sword that he improvised out of a boat oar while being rowed across to the island where the duel took place. Well, perhaps, there's no doubt Musashi was a formidable swordsman and accomplished artisan - I have seen a a tsuba (a hand guard placed between the blade and the handle) made by Musashi, a beautiful, paradoxical thing.
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