Kurogasa55

The tsuka has enough room for me to use two hands and i am 6'3 with large hands. Not my usual size of tsuka but it is enough to fit me.

No problem. I thought it was a nice set too. I am glad you enjoyed it.

I agree. This has been my thoughts all along. I just wanted to see other people's opinions on the matter. If you look throughout history, everyone was much smaller. Suits of armor for Knights, Spartans, Vikings, Samurai and the like that have survived are all much smaller and most people today would not be able to fit into them. People just keep getting bigger.

Anything is possible but i thought merchants only were permitted to carry one sword no matter what the length. It was my understanding that only the samurai were allowed to carry two swords as the symbol of the rank in society.

This is very interesting. It never really occurred to me that a Daisho could have two wakizashi as the swords. I always just expected a katana and a wakizashi or a katana and a tanto. You find something new out everyday. Thanks for the info

Sounds pretty good to me. It is the only true original Daisho that i have ever found so i also thought it was quite rare. A persons height did occur to me as well because it seemed small for someone of my height(6'3). The Koshirae was my biggest thing on classifying it as a katana, so that helps too. Thanks everyone for all the help! Any more comments would be greatly appreciated as well

another pic

this is the daisho

Yes. The Longer sword that is 23.6 inches has a companion Wakizashi that has an 18 inch blade. So that is what makes me think it was worn as a katana, but not everyone seems to classify it as such. Both swords have matching fittings.

So according to this my swords could either be considered a very large Wakizashi or a small Katana? The classification changing all the time makes it quite confusing.

That is very interesting. It makes a lot of sense though. The one sword that i have is 23.6 inches but it is also mounted with a wakizashi with it. The Daisho matches perfectly and it was brought back from the WW2 that way. So the Samurai carrying it must of practically viewed it as a katana as well. The tsuka is long enough to be wielded two handed so this must be what it had been used as

How much did the length change? They did seem a little short for Katana but a little long for Wakizashi. If they are long wakisazhi's than what is the minimum length for a katana?