Legend has it that just a single glimpse of this prestige bogu makes people start kendo. Going to a business meeting? Wear kouten and all your business colleagues will be doing kendo! Going to pick up your kid from school? Wear the kouten and next they there will be about 300 children waiting in front of the dojo, eager to start kendo. Wearing this amazing bogu gives you instant access to hachidan skills and grants you the title of “osensei”. Then again, even if none of that is true, you still end up with a bogu that looks dog’s bollocks! So it is a win-win kind of situation.