[quote=@Ellri]
umm... whats your source for this "five or more meters" bit,[@Aura Lodestone]?
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[url]http://japantrip.tripod.com/nodachi/norimitsu.html[/url]

But that's only 3.7m. We sell 4 meter long pole saws at work and they're hard to swing around even when retracted to half length. [i][b]IF[/b][/i] there is a 5 meter long sword out there it couldn't possibly be used for anything productive.