Chapter 879 Real Sword

You can often see photos like this in travel magazines.

A girl wearing a beautiful kimono, beads and flowers on her head, and white powder on her face was walking through the streets of Kyoto.

The girl's occupation is called geisha. Jojosan in Madama Butterfly is also a geisha. In musicals, this role is usually played by European and American women.

The three-dimensional facial features of European and American people look like they were carved out by a sculptor with a chisel, with sharp edges and corners.

Oriental people have soft facial features. Although she doesn't know why Xu Zhimo is so famous, one of his poems describes it very vividly: The most tenderness of the lowered head is like the shyness of a water lotus that cannot bear the cool breeze.

The oriental girl in her heart was like this, and Qiu Zhang was also very gentle, but she was really too young and thought that Dumbledore's Army was just a make-up class, and would not disfigure a girl just to leak secrets.

Neither the inside nor the outside is good-for-nothing. The world has many demands on girls, and everyone hopes that they will always make the right choice, or that they will prefer their own choices.

But the soul often cannot keep up with the growth of the body. There is a flower street called Shimabara in Kyoto. It was once a paradise for men, but it was not necessarily a blessing for the women living there.

Whether you are learning to dance or play the shamisen, it is all to please the guests.

The feeling of laughing just to make others happy even though you don't want to laugh is extremely uncomfortable. In the East, people call this industry "laughter selling".

It is miserable enough for an artist to be reduced to a joke seller, but if someone is unwilling to pay for the joke, he will be kicked out by Shimabara's thugs.

Don't "buy laughter" if you don't have money. The problem is that in the last years of the shogunate, after the black ships attacked, many middle- and lower-level samurai became ronin.

They have no source of income and live a wandering life. In short, they have nothing to lose except their lives.

I drank flower wine to find comfort, but instead of finding comfort, I was discriminated against and ridiculed.

Men are the most intolerable to be looked down upon by women, let alone the ridicule of prostitutes. At that time, there was no order to abolish swords in Japan, and the decline of the samurai class also made the "Miao character with swords" useless. Not only ronin, but also businessmen could carry swords.

Knife, this caused a lot of security problems, and bloodshed often occurred in Flower Street.

Coupled with the rise of the "Honor the King and Reject the Barbarians" movement at that time, after the Sakurada Gate Incident, assassination became a way for lower-level samurai to express their political demands. Patriots from various vassals gradually showed a tendency to unite. They continuously attacked and burned foreign embassies, and assassinated embassy personnel and businessmen.

, threatening and killing foreign Japanese merchants, which brought the movement of respecting the king and resisting the foreigners to a climax in the Wenjiu period.

When the Edo shogunate Tokugawa Iemo came to Beijing in the second year of Bunkyu, Hachiro Kiyokawa proposed to recruit ronin to form a shogunal guard, which was adopted by the shogunate. The Edo shogunate adopted a gentle policy to control ronin, specially organized a ronin group, and used ronin to deal with ronin.

law and order.

Edo was still a countryside at that time, and those ronin who came from the countryside were placed in Mibu Village, so they were called the "Mibu rondo group" by the people of Kyoto. They were assigned by the guardian of Kyoto, Matsudaira Yoshiho, to maintain the security of Shimabara, Kyoto.

This group of people was the Shinsengumi who caused a bloody storm in Kyoto in the future. Because of their ruthless attacks, they were called the Mibu Wolf by Kyoto and the ronin of the rebel faction. Their first team uniform was the light green haori designed by Serizawa Kamo.

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They were ruthless to ronin, and were not merciful to their own people. After they were established, they often expanded their enrollment and often "purged" them. Mibu Village gradually could no longer accommodate them, so the Shinsengumi's headquarters moved from Mibu Village to Nishi Honganji Temple.

Buddhist temples are as gorgeous as churches, but women are not allowed inside monk temples.

Senior officials such as Kondo Isamu, Yamanan Nobutaka, Hijikata Toizo and other senior officials can be placed in the outer room, Okita Souji, Saito and other captains can go to Shimabara to stay overnight, while the lower-level team members can only stay in the camp.

If you want to climb up, you must establish military merit. The Shinsengumi was established because of your participation in the August 18th coup to protect the Imperial Garden. In order to live a better life, you must kill more "restoration patriots." Although the Ikedaya incident delayed the overthrow of the war,

But it also triggered the Forbidden Gate incident.

The people who held a meeting in Ikeda's house to discuss burning Kyoto were radical elements of the Zunban faction. If a city is reduced to ruins, is there any value in occupying it?

The Shinsengumi launched the Ikedaya Incident, and Kyoto Shojidai only found out later that the envoys sent by Isamu Kondo were looking for reinforcements from the Aizu clan and the Kuwana clan, the guardians of Kyoto. Regardless of whether the Kuwana or Aizu factions sent people, the Shinsengumi was determined to do so.

Taking action, Katsura Kogoro, a giant of the Choshu feudal lord faction, had no intention of attending the party. As a result, he immediately returned to the feudal residence after receiving the news halfway. Soon after, Yoshida Minoru sent an urgent letter asking for help, but Katsura closed the door and refused to respond.

There are many radical elements in the Zunhuang faction, and there are many respected figures in Ikeda House. Ikeda House has intensified the conflict, and everyone has no way out.

Some plans were arrogant to imagine, but there was no possibility of implementation. The Shinsengumi extinguished the fire of delusion with blood, but the real fire burned most of Kyoto. After this incident, the Choshu clan raised troops to the capital, which in turn stimulated the king.

The anti-barbarian faction accelerated the reform.

Practicing kendo usually starts with a bamboo sword, but Natural Rishin-ryu uses a wooden sword.

Okita Souji became a disciple of Natural Rishin-ryu when he was nine years old, and showed extraordinary talent in swordsmanship. He became a member of Onyo Kyden at a very young age.

However, the "sport" that he found so interesting as a child was actually a killing skill. From the moment he picked up Kaga Kiyomitsu and Kikuichi Monmonorimune, he could no longer be a pure "swordsman genius".

"Why is there a shot put here?" Pomona asked the female boss as she passed an area displaying Japanese armor and knives.

"That's what my husband collected." The female boss said, "That's the shot put used in the Olympic Games."

Pomona still didn't understand.

"My husband said that real craftsmen can use their hands to create more precise products than machines. If athletes want to get good results, they will choose shot put with a good center of gravity. Before the Japanese manufacturer joined, shot put was made with turntable

, the center of gravity is not in the center of the shot put, even an error of one millimeter will affect the throwing distance of the shot put. To the Japanese craftsmen, these lead shot are like alive. The temperature and humidity in winter and summer are different, and the cooling time is different.

Different, the density of the shot put will also be different. It needs to be cooled for one day in winter and two days in summer. The humidity will also change during the rainy season, and the manufactured shot put also needs to be adjusted. You see, they also carved patterns on the surface of the shot put.

, this will make it easier for the players to hold it. During the Barcelona Olympics, these shot put were all stolen because they were so perfectly made. The center of gravity of a good knife also needs to be adjusted. Only a knife with a reasonable center of gravity can be used smoothly.

What do you think of holding that parrot tea knife?"

Pomona weighed the knife in her hand, perhaps because it was made of copper and was much heavier than iron, so it was very easy to hold.

"Very good," she said.

"That was produced by the Longquan Sword Factory. There are many 'Longquan Swords' now, but there is only one genuine one. It is purely handmade. Legend has it that they are restoring Ou Yezi's technology."

"Ou Yezi?"

"You don't know who he is?"

"No, I know who Ou Yezi is, but I think it's impossible to restore his craftsmanship."

"The Arabs are also trying to restore the Damascus knife, but the wootz steel is no longer available, and the knife they forged is still imperfect." The female boss curled her lips and said, "As long as Ou Yezi doesn't use that kind of extinct material, it will be possible.

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"You seem familiar with knives," Severus asked.

"I don't like these things, but my husband does." The female boss shrugged. "He calls 'wootz steel' a magic metal. Oh, did you know that the 'Tang Dao' is also forged with wootz steel?"

"What is that?" Severus asked, because the female boss just spoke Chinese.

"The knives used by samurai in the Tang Empire are very similar to samurai swords, but they are straight and have much better toughness. Japanese knives are said to be made after imitating 'Tang swords'. They are very sharp, but easy to break." Female boss

He said, "But it's strange that not a single Tang sword has been handed down. It's like they disappeared out of thin air. Only Japanese museums still have collections. They have preserved those swords very well and they have not rusted for a thousand years."

"Where is your husband?" Severus asked.

"A better place." The female boss smiled and said, "Sooner or later I will go find him."

"The Veritaserum has failed?" Pomona asked Severus.

Severus gave her a cold look and ignored her at all.

Craftsman is an Asian term. "Wang Wei" of Pomona said that if a craftsman creates an object with a pious attitude, he will give it a soul, and the craftsman's soul will be immortalized in the vessel.

An excellent swordsman must not only have superior skills himself, but must also be supported by a good craftsman.

Just like track and field athletes and shot put, only shot put with the right center of gravity can allow athletes to create new world records.

Let alone one or two meters, even ten centimeters is a kind of transcendence, because it means breaking through the limits of human beings.

Human potential is huge, but it is usually controlled. There is a legend that in order to save her child, a mother caught a baby who fell from downstairs at a speed faster than a 100-meter sprinter.

That was her subconscious behavior, and the same is true for possessed people. Their power will become very great, and a little girl will need to be controlled by several adults. At that time, the person controlling her body is no longer herself.

So Pomona believes what the female boss says, that the human body can create products that are more sophisticated than machines.

The ingenuity that produces this kind of "human flesh induction" is better said to be stubborn perseverance.

If craftsmen want to please customers, they will compromise, change their craftsmanship, excessively pursue cost-effectiveness, and use cheap materials to make shoddy products. In this way, they will not be able to make a "perfect" shot put.

"Why are there coins here?" Pomona said, picking up a bracelet strung with colorful strings on the shelf. There were many "five yen" coins on it.

"In Japan, the pronunciation of yen and yen are very close. They are used when making wishes at shrines. 23 five-yen coins are 115 yen. In Japanese, the pronunciation is 'wish for a good marriage.'" The female boss was so attached that she took it from Pomona's hand.

He passed the bracelet and said, "This is what we brought back from Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine."

"Does that mean anything else?" she asked again.

"Fifteen five yen represents a curse and will bring about bad luck that will make people cry."

"Oh." Pomona said in disgust.

"When did this statement come about?" Severus asked.

"After World War II, there were no five-yen coins before." The female boss said blankly, as if the truth serum had not expired yet.

Among all the good deeds, filial piety is the first, and when it comes to the heart, there is no trace of deeds. In terms of deeds, there are no filial sons in a poor family. Among all evils, sexual immorality is the first, and when it comes to deeds, no consideration is given to the heart. When it comes to the heart, there is no perfect person in the world.

Just thinking about the life of three wives and four concubines is like a dream, it is a kind of compensation. This kind of thing cannot happen in reality, just like Ikedaya's Zunbo faction set fire to Kyoto and held the emperor hostage.

This may be because of Hijikata Toshizo, the "Deputy Commander of the Demons".

He wanted the samurai who came from the countryside to become famous in Kyoto, but the final result was not ideal.

The wealth gained by killing quickly disappears. People often say that when they are dying, they will look back on their past like a revolving lantern. Did Hijikata Toizo miss practicing kendo happily with everyone in the gym in Edo?

What about the time?

That would be much more enjoyable than catching monsters like "Human Slayer" in the dark and maze-like alleys of Kyoto.

Swords are murder weapons, and sword skills are techniques for killing people. No matter how beautiful words are used to cover up, that is always the fact.
To be continued...