Namakura Gatana
Encyclopedia
or is a short anime
produced by Jun'ichi Kouchi at 1917. It was found in an antique shop in Osaka in central Japan in March 2008.
This anime is a 2 minute silent short that tells a history about a samurai
's foolish purchase of a dull-edged sword.
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
produced by Jun'ichi Kouchi at 1917. It was found in an antique shop in Osaka in central Japan in March 2008.
This anime is a 2 minute silent short that tells a history about a samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
's foolish purchase of a dull-edged sword.