samurai cut

Tameshigiri (試し斬り, 試し切り, 試斬, 試切) is the Japanese art of target test cutting. The kanji literally mean " test cut " ( kun'yomi: ためし ぎり tameshi giri ). This practice was popularized in the Edo period (17th century) for testing the quality of Japanese swords. [1] It continues to the present day, but has evolved ... model samurai