You might be thinking of O"dachi Oldfart. The No"dachi generally have a 30-36 inch blade with a three hand grip. Nothing I can't handle. Plus traditionally made swords are made out of tamahagane steel which takes over 3 days to smelt. The sword itself takes months to make and is completely done by hand without any modern tools. I've done a lot of research into this.

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