Katana in Action - Neatorama

In these videos, you can see how sharp the sword is in slow-motion:

An egg cleanly sliced in two:

A plastic bottle sliced:

This one is awesome: a tomato cut in two.

And this here is how to make the swords [in Japanese, not slo-mo]:

via Kirai's blog

You missed the onion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjw3UQ5unIc&mode=related&search=

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I've always wanted a kitchen samurai.

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i know japanese swords are amazing but... tomato and egg? can't you do that with a regular knife thin enough?

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You're right. A tomato and an egg are totally lame. They should have done it the traditional way and taken a live prisoner and tested how cleanly it sliced through him.

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After all, i still think it's not so bad..try to slice a tomato with an European styled sword :-)

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maybe one of the hardest things is to move the sword with that straight precise line...

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