“ To avoid the sword from being locked, the movement of the left hand should be ascending so that, in the case that the sword gets trapped, it might offer the space conditions for the blade to be rotated and removed”
“ In the past they used to say that the sternum would retain the sword if the cut was wrongly made, so, in order to simulate this technique, the Kiriotoshi was trained in a species of bamboo called‘ Moso’"
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