What Does a Japanese Katana Trainee Think About Mini Katana’s Videos?

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The info on drawing the katana without your thumb, and how it ties in to the word betray, is mind blowing. I love learning how history, language, and traditional culture align!

Imagine having this guy as your history teacher.

7 years…still considers himself a novice. Very Japanese, very humble. You have earned all the respect and more❤️❤️

Def one of the most humble YouTubers I’ve ever watched. He’s very smart and informative on everything he talks about. Keep it up Shogo!!

To the question of oil: commercially sold choji oil is a mix of mostly mineral oil and a small amount of clove oil. The clove oil is just for making it smell nice. You can use pure mineral oil with no problem. Mineral oil is also sold as baby oil because it is so neutral and inert.

The move done on time 17:40 (draw,spin,sheath) was very impressive. Very fluid and looked almost naturally instinctive. Very well done *applause*👏👏

At 17:40 that spinning katana move was so cool 😱. I've seen him draw the katana on may different styles but✋, that was the first time I saw him draw that kind of style. So awesome 😎

About stepping over Katana: my grandmaster (Karate and Kobujutsu) also has a Dan in Kenjutsu. And he once told a story about one of his Dan tests. Another Dan candidate stepped over his own Katana. The examiners saw this. The consequence? No Dan test for said candidate!

As far as the oil. You have to consider the scabbard, if wood, will absorb the oil. If the oil has a bad smell the scabbard will stink. Some mineral oils for guns or machines stink. Cooking oils can go rancid and smell. That is why natural wood oils are used. If you can find a thin mineral oil like sewing machine oil that has no odor you would be ok as long as you weren't to heavy with it. Definitely not WD40.

Your humility is refreshing, and as always I applaud your virtuosity. Your expertise is appreciated, and I honestly believe you are one of the best content providers of this type I've ever had the experience of viewing. Peace and blessings to you my friend 😊.

The traditional method of producing steel to make swords in Japan was ingenious despite using poor quality of iron ores (not trying to be offensive, just stating the facts as I know of it). Now with modern science and metallurgy, do traditional Japanese swordsmiths take advantage of that knowledge when producing a modern katana? The folding of steel, for example, was to remove impurities, however with modern fabrication, you can remove most of those impurities without folding. Love to hear your thoughts.

I'm a lefty and I started to train iaido through instructional videos. It was easy enough because I just mirrored the video. I did well enough because at tournaments I got compliments on my form. When I started to expand my martial knowledge and started learning Bolognese swordsmanship I became ambidextrous and that throws off my friends when we spar.

I slightly cut my finger just as you described once. Reaching for my katana as it fell out of its saya. Learned that lesson the hard way. I'm glad it was just a small surface layer cut.

Great job condensing all the things I have learned over 10 years! Love it!

I have a katana and another way I found to open the katana pretty quickly is to practice putting your thumb to the top right of the tsuba so you don’t accidentally cut yourself and to pull out at the same time of breaking the seal, I decided to try this because I have a relatively smaller tsuba, and I have really big hands, so accidentally cutting my thumb was quite worrying.

One of the very first things we teach at my dojo, is to keep your thumb on the Tsuba. We do it from using bokken, because if students learn to do it with the bokken, then by the time they are using iaito, it’s already ingrained into them.

This brings me back to my iaido days during college. Agreed on the left handed part. I am left handed but still had to draw with the right.

Thank you, Shogo. I am from Russia, but always wanted to learn Japanese traditional arts(martial arts). You perfectly explained me how to handle this sacral object. Arigato🧘

I love how happy and humble you are, it makes your aura so bright! Your skills and knowledge are amazing! Thank you for sharing!