Hypothetical Nihonto Values

[Alex A]

Think reading through this thread the other day may have amplified my thoughts.

 

Not swords but really hits home, for me. 

 

 

[RichardP]

15 hours ago, Rivkin said:

I sold long ago the sword I used for duels

You folks lead way more interesting lives than I do!

[Hokke]

2 hours ago, Alex A said:

Think reading through this thread the other day may have amplified my thoughts.

 

Not swords but really hits home, for me. 

 

 

Interesting, I’m curious if it was possible for biological material or actual blood. The way the post is written looks like an assumption of blood because it’s positive for biological material. Isn’t sweat, skin and hair considered biological material? 

[Justin Grant]

3 hours ago, Hokke said:

Interesting, I’m curious if it was possible for biological material or actual blood. The way the post is written looks like an assumption of blood because it’s positive for biological material. Isn’t sweat, skin and hair considered biological material? 

Luminol reacts to the iron in the blood. The lab said it reacted to biological material. So, it’s blood, but they don’t say that, they say biological material. 

[Schneeds]

Luminol is used to local/reveal potential blood stains, typically post clean up.  OBTI is used to confirm presence of human blood.  Both are field tests.

[Rivkin]

13 hours ago, RichardP said:

You folks lead way more interesting lives than I do!

Exciting?

Three days without a sleep, lots of caffeine, 20 seconds during which blood seemingly covers everything, puzzled people in hospital being told its a cooking accident for a jackass youtube show.

Paying extra for a blade that went through this.... Hmmmm.

Edited May 14 by Rivkin

[Cola]

8 hours ago, Rivkin said:

Exciting?

Three days without a sleep, lots of caffeine, 20 seconds during which blood seemingly covers everything, puzzled people in hospital being told its a cooking accident for a jackass youtube show.

Paying extra for a blade that went through this.... Hmmmm.

 

Sounds pretty exciting to me. Not fun or advisable, but exciting nonetheless. 

[Lukrez]

 The idea of “epic stories” captures the answer pretty well.

Are you more the “Y’all owe me 100 German scalps!” Inglourious Basterds type, or the kind of person who watches Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer twice in theaters just to catch all the Easter eggs?J

 

apanese culture clearly has a deep connection to epic narratives and mythology, but in the end, one can argue the ancient Greek poets are the real GOATs when it comes to storytelling: immoral, strange, childish, bloodlust... — yet they’ve survived and been retold for centuries.

 

From Homer’s Odyssey, to the deity of failure Sugawara no Michizane, the "messia" Kusunoki Masashige, and all the way to The Sopranos, it simply comes down to personal preference in terms of which narratives resonate with us.

 

Or, as Plato already in a reading of the Phaedo: “This venture is indeed beautiful, and in a sense one must enchant oneself with such things (storytelling).”