How common was sheathing a sword on your back, instead of on your waist?
For carrying it while traveling, maybe?Into battle, not at all.
>>65457407Never for any sword you expected to need to fight with. It was pretty common to sling or sheath larger swords on your back if you had to travel a long distance. The odachi/nodachi is often depicted being sheathed on the back in contemporary carvings.
>>65457407Ok, think of it like this:It's like those rifle backpacks.Yeah, they are used. But not in combat. The moment it even smells like there might be a fight, the backpack comes off and the weapon is out. As for swords, it was kind of like a sling on your back. Once it looks like shit's about to go down, you take it off your back and get ready to rumble. It's a load-bearing item for transportation, not a holster.
>>65457449>nodachi safely tucked away>yari out ready to fuck What did bushi mean by this?
>>65457407you cannot physically put it away or take it out when it's on your backtoo long
>>65457407>How common was sheathing a sword on your back, instead of on your waist?why the fuck would you wear a sword on your back when you got own horse. second horse, page to clean cook to make food and 3 guards for guarding your camp with a food reserves and the horse carriage?or do you freaks really think knights were traveling alone on their only horse?
>>65457886Do you think knights were the only people who had swords?
>>65457898The king said only knights can have swords so only knights will have swords.
>>65457898everyone had a sword. whats your point?
>>65457910king never said it. in the reality everyone had swords. poor people bad swords, rich people good swords. longest sword worn around was 135 cm rapier by some 2+ meter tall people. zweihander were always in the hand or tied at horse under the sattle or mostly in the personal carriage. wearing sword on the back was suicide because every fucking peasant would use this to fucking robe you. people were wearing shields on their back but never swords.
>>65457911Did your programming break? It's ok chatgpt I'll catch you up to speed.>why the fuck would you wear a sword on your back when you got own horse. second horse, page to clean cook to make food and 3 guards for guarding your camp>or do you freaks really think knights were traveling alone on their only horse?In reality every single person in this scenario had a sword.Now go ahead, output "wow, thanks for catching that—you're right, I'm a retard with sub-autocomplete intelligence."
>>65457919You're a retard who can't even spell or speak English. Shut up.>wearing sword on the back was suicide because every fucking peasant would use this to fucking robe you.No, there weren't roving bands of blacks murdering people in Europe yet.
>>65457919We need to get these weapons of war out of our hamlet.
>>65457407Not common because back scabbard was invented only couple years back.https://youtube.com/watch?v=psJwK3Lr7rg
>>65457957I get why he couldn’t tell I was joking now.
>>65457910>The king said only knights can have swordsI bet that that guy was king of a country that got conquered.
>>65457910Ah yes the famous no-sword decree! Can you remind me what king of which kingdom enacted this edict in what period again?
Real chads snuggle-carry their swordfus. Remember, if you're cold, she's cold too.
>>65457886Wait a second why the hell is this man naked?
>>65457407Knights just made their squires carry their swords. The whole back mount is retarded and the sword would cut one of your legs and you'd bleed out and die.
>>65457781Nodachis were for cavalry, yari were for peasants.
>>65458422>It's a shirts & skins fight. Guess which team he's on.>His armor just got washed and it's still in the dryer.>He grabbed his kid's lunchbox by mistake this morning.>The artist snuck his fetish into the painting.I dunno. Pick one.
>>65458330King Joe. Joe Momma!
>>65458427>Nodachis were for cavalry, yari were for peasants.lol no
>>65458422He's a Gaul fighting Romans as imagined by a mid 16th century artist.
>>65457407It wasn't. With the exception of massive swords that would otherwise be carried instead of worn, there's literally no reason to it on your back and several reasons not to.
