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Kogarasu Maru was designed with a curved double-edged blade approximately 62.8 cm long. One edge of the blade is shaped in normal tachi fashion but, unlike the tachi, the tip is symmetrical and both edges of the blade are sharp, except for about 20 cm of the trailing or concave edge
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light novel series, the main protagonist Hajime Nagumo crafted a black
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Kogarasu Maru is currently in the Japanese Imperial Collection. The tang of the Kogarasu Maru is not signed but the blade is believed to have been made in either the early
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blades exist from this era, but many other blades of this type have been created throughout
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An anthropomorphized version of
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sword believed to have been created by legendary
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