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The Swordsmanship of a Samurai
Condo isami was a 29 year old teacher who taught people how to kill. He had been studying the art of sword play for about 14 years, almost half his life. But up until that point, hed never actually killed anyone. And this was actually a big source of personal frustration for many samurai during the pre modern era. Back when the o g shogan had united japan a couple centuries earlier, he'd put an end to all the cyclical battles and territorial scraps. Almost overnight, the samurai became soft.
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