Scientist compares Roman and Japanese swords with new method

[Dan Howard]

This is no suprise to me. Japanese swords have always been overrated.

They're not overrated. They're just engineered to a higher degree on pretty much every component than their euro counterparts. This in turn causes many people of western decent to feel inferior. Can't blame them. To appreciate and know anything about nihonto takes a lot of skill and study. But you already know that eh paul. :wink:

You take an average built nihonto and it'll blow out of the water an average built euro can opener. Take a top-end nihonto including all of its koshirae and the best euro sword doesn't even come close. Sad but true.

Pleiner's "The Celtic Sword" proves this statement to be a complete load of rubbish. The Celts were practicing "nihonto" at least thousand years before the Japanese.