The Lie about Katana Maintenance

When you think of katana maintenance, you’d probably imagine hitting the blade with a white (or sometimes red) mallet and drawing oil, which you often see in anime and movies. But did you know that this method of maintenance was actually started quite recently (after the Meiji period), after the samurai were gone?
The reason we know this is that sword sheaths prior to the Edo period (the last samurai era) rarely have oil stains on the inside. If you hardly apply oil, then it means you don’t need to apply the powder either, because it is meant to remove the old oil. It is said that the samurai may have done nothing more than lightly wiping the area with a dry cloth.
The current method of sword maintenance came into being after the Meiji period because swords were rarely carried and were stored for longer periods of time.
In fact, the sensei who taught me tameshigiri (mat cutting training) simply wiped his katana with a cloth. But because he used them every day and wiped them every day, there was never any rust.
Actually because the mallets have whetstone powder in them, if you use it too much it would rather damage the blade.
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