Tameshi giri
The term tameshi giri , 試切, means “test of cut literally”. It is a question of testing the capacity of cut, and thus quality, of a blade, in particular of Katana.
With the the Middle Ages, the tests were done on various supports such as iron bars, helmets of combat, armours, piled up corpses, even, in certain cases and according to the requirement of the blacksmith or of sound " client" , on condemned to death blocked. The number of bodies cut during the test was registered on silk of the blade (nakago) in the shape of file strokes. Certain blacksmiths, sure from the quality of their work, went until adorning the kimono white ceremonial under their clothing if the failure of the tests of their blade obliges them to make seppuku. Nowadays, the tests of cut are done on bales of straw of rices or reed, sometimes reinforced in their center of a stem of bamboo, to restore the texture of a human neck.
The tameshi giri is frequently confused with the Batto C , the art of the cut which, associated with Iaido, constitutes the result of the way.
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