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Samurai Sword Timeline

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c. 700

Steel-bladed swords are first made in Japan.
c. 1580

It becomes fashionable for Japanese samurai to wear two swords: the daisho ("great and small").
1588

Toyotomi Hideyoshi prohibits commoners from carrying weapons, including swords.

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