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Hi here is nice poem about Katanamochi...

ume saku ya setchin no soto no katanamochi

Issa 1824

plum blossoms-

outside the outhouse

a sword bearer

Translation D. Lanoue

 

"A samurai of decent rank could afford such an attendant because human labor was so cheap"

 

https://darumamuseum.blogspot.de/2010/02/katana-1-sword.html

 

Best Regards

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