Itto Ogami has TH greatest Katana user ever on film

Over on a another bored they asked who's the greatest Katana user ever on film and only one person names Itto Ogami.......all the other people they name don't even come close at all. I mean come on Lone Wolf And Cub have TH greatest Katana.

The sword that Itto Ogami had was the Dotanuki battle sword. Dotanuki means sword-that-cuts-thru-torsos. It's a type of wakazashi used to cut thru armour.


This sword design was first developed by master swordsmith Dotanuki Kunikatsu. Made to slice through its target with a single cut, a sword of Dotanuki design is characterized by its thicker and heavier blade.

Once a favorite weapon of Japan's feudal warlords, or daimyo, this sword design was considered to be the apex of military dynamism and power. In fact, in honor of this great smithing achievement, one daimyo, Kato Kiyomasa, gave Kunikatsu part of his own name as an accolade. Thereafter, Kunikatsu became known as Masakuni, and swords of the Dotanuki Masakuni design were forever guaranteed a place in the halls of Japan's long history.

Tozando is sure that you will be as satisfied with our Dotanuki iaito as feudal warlords were with their shinken of the same design. In reproducing this famous sword we have remained true to Dotanuki's most characteristic trademarks: the elegance of simplicity, dynamism, and power.



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A formidable warrior, Ogami Itto; had become the Shogun's executioner, the Kogi Kaishakunin, a position of high power used by the Tokugawa Shogunate (along with the Oniwaban and the assassins) to enforce the will of the Shogun over the daimyo or domain lords. For those samurai and lords ordered to commit seppuku, the Kogi Kaishakunin would assist with their deaths by decapitating them to relieve the pain of cutting their stomachs.

It's Itto Ogami for Lone Wolf And Cub. The 28 volumes of Lone Wolf And Cub should show you that. The armies of people and warriors he has taken on during his travels all over Japn with his sword. I can't believe that only one person names him. None of those other character can combare with Itto Ogami's Dotanuki battle sword.