How do I display my swords on the wall?

[@michael.waddell]

I love your passion for the arts man, it shines through in every video.

[@SifuMark-j3t]

Great Job!, {Deep Bow} Thank You!

[@addictedtoblades2]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and displaying technique

[@kristopherlegge3126]

Always learning something. Thanks

[@alexblack9609]

I have a sword that has the words on the sheath and the ornament on the handle opposite of this video. If I have the handle on the left the words on the sheath and the dragon ornament on the handle is not visible. I really appreciate this video!

[@jaketheasianguy3307]

I think putting the sword edge down causing the blade to dull is just a myth. Yea, if I draw it out and let the edge run back and forth constantly inside the scabbard, it will dull over time but if it stay still on the rack, it won't get dull. Let's not forget the Tachi was worn edge down, alot of curve sword around the world is also the same. There's also double edge sword to think about as well

[@phoenixcraft9940]

There's a couple things we can analyze here, as it's a bit more complicated than most people think. First, we'll start with the Saya (scabbard), which of course was made of wood. After a long time of putting a very sharp and heavy blade on the wood, it will split or crack, even without movement (of course, this would take time). European scabbards often had wool or some other soft material soaked in oil (to prevent rusting) inside of them and thus would be less prone to breaking, however European methods of long term storage were less specific as it depended on the era, type of sword, etc. A Saya splitting is not uncommon, both in modern-day and ancient practioners of martial arts. The blade itself is significantly different both in design and purpose with both European and Japanese swords. Japanese swords were not made for their strength and thus stabbing power as with European swords, but were instead made to have as sharp of an edge as possible to cut through flesh. Japanese iron was very low quality, and because of that plate armor was never something very prominent - instead, Japanese people used ceramic armor which had many holes or gaps that could be abused in a fight to reach flesh. In Europe, however, there was an abundance of high quality material that meant chainmail was very wide-spread, and chainmail is specifically designed to be hard to cut, not to mention plate armor was even harder to cut. Both of these types of armor were often combined, with chainmail being under the plate armor, leading to an armor design that made cutting with swords very difficult unless you could reach specific weak points. Rather, instead swords in Europe were designed to dent armor and harm the opponent that way, and/or to pierce opponents with stabbing movements. Because of all of this, in the end the sharpness of a European sword was not as important compared to the strength of the blade. So why does this matter? Japanese swords use a technique called differential hardening, where the blade (ha) is softer than the spine (mune), leading to a weaker sword but sharper edge. A sharper edge also means an edge that will lose its sharpness faster (relatively to its original state). Finally, larger katana such as the tachi were made with a purpose similar to European great swords - heavy, brute force blows and while cutting was still important it would have been harder to draw or maintain the sharpness of such a large blade like you do an uchigatana or wakizashi - leading to a sword that wasn't as prioritized in terms of sharpness. In conclusion, not only is the steel that make up a katana's edge softer, but due to how sharp katana are made the edge can wear down very fast. While it may not wear down the edge after a week or two of storage with the edge down, after a year or more it will inflict harm on your katana.

[@garymoore6520]

That's how I have my swords

[@MissionJesus370]

Would this hold other types of swords? Also I put soft material where the blade is in hopes to protect the blade

[@blacksnapper7684]

Open ended question: why are tachi displayed with the blade down? Or are they displayed the same as katana and I’ve been seeing them displayed wrong my whole life?

[@MM-zj8be]

I was told to display the katana with blade up because it cuts the negative energy falling from the sky. Any truth to that?

[@Shadowical]

its also to keep the blade from scraping off the sheath, and a blade pressing on a wooden sheath would also eventually crack the sheath.

[@CARMATIZBAK_]

That could be a superstition thing. It’s most likely probably just not to cut the saya