Vintage Japanese Sword
Vintage Japanese Sword
What does it mean when a Japanese is buried with swords?
I just wanna know. This happened some 11 years ago.
A man was buried with two swords: an officer’s katana (or at least it looked like it to me, WWII vintage) and a shorter katana (did a research on this and found out it was for hara-kiri ceremony). The man’s past is shrouded in mystery (era 1940s, when he was in his 20s) and one I’m trying to delve in. I do know he is Japanese, as to what degree, I do not know.
Does the burial of the katana along with him mean anything?
Katana has a spiritual meaning among Japanese. Katana means Bushido(spirit of samurai), and Katana is a symbol of Bushido and Samurai. Samurai always had two Katana Swords, longer one and shorter one. And shorter Katana does not always means harakiri, it was used for short range attack or in narrow space.
It’s not a tradition to bury with one’s katana, but I guess that he had a Bushido spirits in his mind and wanted to be buried as a noble Samurai Warrior.