The truth about the Japanese sword. (Incident in Otsu)

By bammbuss | bammbuss | 5 Jul 2019

Otsu is a Japanese city in which April 29 (May 11, 1891) the future emperor, and then the heir to the Russian throne, Nicholas could lose his life. I wonder if Nicholas would then have overtaken death, how would our History go? Would the revolutions and Bolsheviks have happened in Russia?

Nicholas and the rickshaw on the same day
The heir was carrying a rickshaw in a wheelchair, when a police officer from the cordon suddenly ran up to the czarevitch and inflicted two blows to him on the head with a sword. Or, as they wrote then in the Russian newspapers "two sliding swords on the head".
The term "sword" in Europe by that time was thoroughly forgotten, but sabers were familiar to both the military and the police. Therefore, in the newspapers and wrote that the blows were "saber".

In fact, Nikolai's head was trying to cut down a real samurai and a samurai sword. This is important to take into account when evaluating the real effectiveness of katana.
In the police of Japan in those days had the right to serve only samurai. So Tsuda Sanzo (the so-called police officer who was attempted to do this) passed not only a police officer, but also a standard samurai training. There is no doubt that he was able to handle the sword at the proper level.
And his sword did not have any tangible defects. Otherwise, the authorities would not allow him to attend the ceremony of meeting and accompanying a high overseas visitor. Who served in the army or the police (police) will easily remember how the chiefs check out the outfit and clothing of a serving person at such state ceremonies.

"According to the medical report drawn up on the day of the assassination, Nicholas suffered the following injuries:
• occipital parietal wound of a linear form 9 centimeters long with divergent margins, penetrating through the entire thickness of the skin to the bone and located in the region of the right parietal bone;
• frontal-parietal wound 10 cm long above the first by 6 centimeters, running almost parallel to it and penetrating through the entire skin to the bone;
• surface transverse wound about 4 millimeters long on the right auricle;
• a transverse transverse wound about 1 centimeter long at the back of the right hand, between the index finger and the thumb.
During the treatment of the fronto-parietal wound, a bone fragment of a wedge-shaped bone was taken about two and a half centimeters in length "
At the end of the dressing, Nikolai again got into the wheelchair and, accompanied by ... got to the governor's house where he was given a new dressing. After that, the tsarevich was taken to Kyoto, where he was seized by the doctors of the Russian squadron. "

These facts and made me think about the real, not kinishnyh fighting qualities of the katana.
How did it happen that the professional warrior (samurai) struck two blows on the unprotected head of a civilian who did not expect an attack, and in the end ... just stitched the skin?
For the sake of justice it is worthwhile to clarify: on the head of Nicholas that day there was a felt hat (a bowler).
The jawless Japanese sword could not, with two blows, cut the felt fabric, skin and sensitively reach the skull bones?
Let's note especially that after the katana's blow to the vital organ the victim committed independent active actions. After all, Nicholas did not even lie down, but skated and then sitting in a wheelchair!
It's your will, but I have serious doubts about this with acquaintance with these facts. that "the Japanese katana is a sword of perfection," the best sword of all times and peoples "at the tseter, at the tseter.

picture from here https://pixabay.com/photos/samurai-warrior-samurai-fighter-67662/

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