HITOYOSHI, Kumamoto Prefecture--A samurai sword forged in 1665 by a master ... that badly damaged a local shrine's collection of 77 historic blades. Torrential rains last July on the main southern ...

You get this big thing in historical European martial arts, as I do, but you're not allowed to carry swords on your shoulder, because that's really, really frowned upon, and no one would ever do it.