Professional Sword Tester’s HidenshoAn undated Edo period hidensho, (literally, secret hereditary writings, or instruction scroll) revealing 15 instructional points for professional sword testers, and a rough diagram of the 30 places a sword would be tested, either on a corpse, or on a condemned criminal.This scroll is 16cm wide and 175cm long, with a 13cm leader. It covers 15 points, details a sword tester should know, averaging 5 lines of hand written cursive styled text, and at the very end, the diagram of cutting points.
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