The Abandonment of the Gladius for the Spatha - Why?

[petrinus]

maybe weapons for bushi were crap but a samurais weapon, someone of actual samurai rank and social status dictated by his birthright in most periods and identified by his daisho set of two swords, to my knowledge was never been supplied with crap-ever, id pitty the sword smith, often the blades were ancestral and past down, samurai died all the time, there were no shortage of weapons to be inherited legitametly or via the spoils of war, ive never known anything japanese-of the fuedal era , to be executed with carlessness, please supply your sources for this because i have been lied to or mislead if this is the case. also swordsmiths were abundant and in constant production, im not saying every blade was folded 10,000 times but i'll wager theyd cut through a scutum. forging swords was a spiritual process, they bathed in ice water to purify themselves before begining work, i cant imagine them half assing something sacred, maybe? ive just never heard of this. regardless of period, daito, katana, nodachi what have ya when ya have it.............let me know and im off to dig in the dirt myself