Your resolve has increased.

I respect a culture that still aims to minimize pain, even to an enemy you’ve utterly been forced to execute.

The Japanese devotion to the perfection of their art is as beautiful as the art itself.

8 out of 10 decapitated people said they didn't feel a thing. The other 2 faked it.

Bruh imagine being the son or daughter of a gradnmaster of *anything* and trying to follow in their footsteps. I can't imagine the pressure

*Everybody gangsta until she starts whipping out water breathing forms*

L1, Circle Circle, Square, L1, Circle, L1

There is no sport in slaughtering helpless domesticated bamboo. Notice how the bamboo plants are trained to perfectly balance on poles while they await their death. This almost never occurs in the wild. If you want to kill bamboo you should go into the wilderness and hunt it yourself where at least it has a chance to escape or fight back.

Note: He's talking specifically about decapitating someone who's committing seppuku.

Make sure your hands are balanced when decapitating your opponent lest you cause him pain guys... just an fyi..........lmao..........I love the Japanese. They're even polite when they're killing you.

Her sword has one of the nicest tsuba I've seen recently. Lovely openwork.

The slow motion shot with the snow falling softly around this woman's face was mesmerizing to watch. It did give me a feeling of time displacement for a moment. The beauty and violence of this cannot be understated for what the Samurai did and who they were. The world they lived in had above all HONOR as a basis for life. A quality so rare in all of today's society around the world. May you keep the way of the Samurai alive for us all, just please refrain from the beheadings.

When low speed footage is used, there should ALWAYS be at least one real speed example - always. Excuse my English.

I can only imagine how happy she was the first time he told he she achieved a perfect cut.

the slow motion part with her facial expression and her eyes locked on gave me shivers. amazing

So, so, so, so much respect for her and every Samurai's dedication and skill.

"To achieve perfect technique so as not to cause great pain when decapitating a person."

woow, she looks awesome

Samurai strikes at target. Target: Ha! You missed! Samurai: Nod your head!

Kishikaze’s faultless slash. -Mythic tale: long ago in the small village of Kototama, the Villagers struggled with an unyealding force of of the ocean; the demon sorentoku. Only one of the seven Densetsu no kenshi could stop. By midday the ferocious demon had already reeked havoc on the small fishing town flooding and crushing all but a few homes, kishikaze; summoned by mass destruction came forth to deal with the relentless demon of the sea, and with one perfect slash to the neck Sorentokus scale ridden body fell effortlessly to the shallow ocean floor disintograting into the foam. Some say that one slash of kishikazes domatsu blade was so flawless and absolute that it could cut even the thickest of armor With ease.

This was very informative on the precision that goes into these cuts!

People who aren't impressed by that cut weren't given a sword for xmas when they were like 13. Those of us who were, and have tried shit like this are completely jaw drop blown away by that slow motion. I would literally (and deeply) bow to the skill shown here. Because Damn.

Just wait till she releases her bankai...

Wow! She is freaking awesome!

Man: “This is a perfect straight cut.” Samurai woman glaring at man; decides his assessment is acceptable and slowly sheathes sword

Sensei Midori Tanaka is my favorite Samurai, and the most respected is GrandMaster O-sensei Fumon Tanaka. Truly Amazing personalities!

There is NOTHING MORE PURE MORE BEAUTIFUL THE ART AND MASTERSHIP OF THIS SWORDS MAN SHIP. GRACE IN EVERY MOVEMENT ABILITY TO DEFEND AND PROTECT. I TRUELY RESPECT SAMURAI. WOULD BE SO HONORED TO LEARN THIS DISCIPLINE...

Insane that the bamboo wasn’t even fixed. Truly amazing swordsmanship.

That was beautiful to watch.

Respect.

She is fantastic with that sword. Great concentration and control. Thank you for this video.

♪ Hire a Samurai ♫

Now mostly people complain about everything. The reason they use bamboo you can see it in the video, of course in fight you will dont use bamboo. second every country have their own strategy according to their time Aisa was way different than Europe. I appreciate this video and love to see the passion and perfection for it.

I'm impressed and I can only guess at how much time was spent to be so good. Well done, and thanks for sharing.

Her eyes never flinched.

I'm impressed that minimising pain was an explicit part of the standard of excellence.

Amazing sword and what a impressive woman with great skills

I cannot overemphasize just how much i respect this lady. Such skill and perfection of technique AND she is good looking!!!! THAT is a " woman". Best regards.

Ancient books say, if the sword can cut a McRib in half, then it is perfection.

People people, there are etiquette in chopping one head off. Make sure you hand is balance or the dead ghosts coming back and complain. Talking about pain in the neck.

Arigato gozaimasu katana for slicing me in the most painless way 🙏

Big respect for this art and history

Sweet! Nothing feels purer than a perfect cut.

Such beautiful swordsmenship technique.

Yes, PlayStation gamer. I know why you’re here.

Swordsmanship as an art is to demonstrate the bonding of mind, body and sword. Samurai were proud of their katana, killers could have cared less about their swords. There is a difference. This applies to other martial arts as well. In swordsmanship the cutting of bamboo and other targets is to demonstrate proper technique. The angle needs to be around 45 degrees as this demonstrates both balance in the cut and the use of proper technique rather than brute force. The 45 degree cut is used as this is also the angle that is used to cut the vulnerable areas between armor i.e the neck between helmet and shoulder or the shoulder joint. Trying to cut through armor won’t yield the desired results. Cutting goza targets with a piece of bamboo is traditionally used as a more accurate approximation of real cutting of a person in a combat situation. I watched the entire documentary and greatly respect their dedication to the traditional art of the Samurai. We train in these arts to better weather the storms in our turbulent times and to achieve balance in our inner and outer worlds. I thank the Tanaka clan for sharing their traditions with us.

There's a reason why it's called martial ARTS. Very impressive and interesting the way they look at things that are violent.

That bamboo represents human torso and the clean cut means to cut from one side to other, head with one shoulder with half of rib cage, an amazing view, how many of viewers can watch that, leave alone doing it

Why are most of the comments complaining about other comments? ...wait

Oh well... There goes my idea for a tank made out of bamboo.

That instance if hands he talks about, in relation to the curvature of the cut, is similar in principle to shot placement correction targets on the firing range. This is just a beautiful peace of martial arts wisdom

It would be a loss to mankind if such priceless art dies off . We should be gratefull to these individuals for their work in ensuring the art lives on .

(0:30~) "Same resistance AS human bone." Resistance to being severed by the sword.

The Way of the Sword developed in the Edo Period (aka Tokugawa period of unified peace after the Warring States period) in Japan replaced Satsu-jin-ken, "The sword that takes life," with Katsu-jin-ken, "The sword that wins life." It is through practice of martial arts and/or spiritual meditation that we engage our fears of powerlessness. Courage comes from our internal sense of power, mastery over our fears, and is gained over time and practice. People kill others when they live in fear.

Mad respect! She is truly samurai.

I love her and My hearts song will never reach her ears , A WOMAN OF MAJESTY a woman to be well pleased to watch

Smh bruh..... went and got a drink and some snacks thought I was in for a long documentary

This kind of dedication to tradition and technique is amazing to me. My mind is blown

Now there’s woman that is perfect for any man. Beautiful, handles a sword to perfection, can protect her man with her skills, what’s not to love?

I met Tanaka shisho many years ago. Great man. Very nice. he was willing to teach a left handed gaijin.

Nice telegraphing.

I wonder how many 2000 year old samurai masters are in the comment section

Would love to see this whole episode

I can hear the pride in his voice, even though he tried so diligently to conceal it.

I wonder when taking a head off if the victim shouted they had bad form before the head hit the floor ?

GLORIOUS JAPANESE KATANA FOLDED 1 GORILLON TIMES IN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN CAN CUT THROUGH A TANK WITH A SINGLE SLICE

Dang Tanaka! Back At It Again With The Katanas!

Cutting materials is not what it means "to be Samurai," but to serve your Lord without question during times of ease and chaos.

Goosebumps when he said "that would give them great pain"! WOW! Jaw dropping skills🙌

I was just getting into it then the video ended. 😭

So beautiful that one trains to strike to not risk an opponent suffering a painful death.

Watch her eyes, they never leave the target. Ice cold brilliance.

and thats how Yasuo learn the way of swordmanship

So when I decapitate someone, I need to make sure my hands are properly balanced...thanks youtube.

Great technique and hard work.

Many years ago in Las Vegas when there was a race called the "Mint 400" (the first one) there was, for whatever reason, a display of 'hanging ropes' both dry and wet of varying thicknesses hanging from beams (actually just swung over them) and an old guy was there with Bruce Lee and Lee was performing various fighting techniques against two and three men at once...and Lee was so fast you could barely see 'what happened' to his opponents, and he gave a lecture after the demo and had proper 'fighting stances' binder-books' for sale, along with 'how-to practice' and so on.The old guy there never spoke...he was there to demonstrate the use of a sword, which followed Lee's performance.The man's face was 'Oriental' but I have no idea if he was Japanese or not...and the demonstration he gave with that katana is difficult to put into words...the 'old guy' ran at the rope displays and slashed them thru without stopping or even slowing, turning and 'spinning' in place and every rope barely moved and all were sliced in maybe 15-seconds or so.I've never seen anything like this anywhere else...and Lee said "This is the only man alive who knows the secret of "Nine Hands Turning" with a sword...he could fight an army by himself and they would all die". Everyone applauded of course...and the old guy 'bowed' to the crowd and went to a trailer. (anyone out there know what the '9-hands turning' means??? And does anyone remember seeing a demo like this?)

Ghost of tsushima brought me here

It's nice to know that she's polite enough not to hurt me while she cuts my head off. Somehow I don't think it will matter much though, seeing as how I'll be dead and all.

Wow, I learned some new things today.

so precise, so elegant.

Give me a sword and I'll cause great pain. Even my eyes are unbalanced.

"'Scuze me while I whip this out...."

thats crazy its smooth and clean there are people ho train for years but cant cut that good

I hope her dad is so proud! i assume she is far better now.

Hoover dam son, that's art

I think decapitating cause a lot of pain no matter straight or curved cut was made.

Very Impressive technique, only practice can achieve results, Tanaka's Daughter is very well Taught.

her stance is unbelievable & her breath is so steady you might even say she wasnt breathing at all

the one girl you're gonna ask out exceedingly politely... xD cheers!

3 more to gain more resolve.

Beautiful cut ! 💓🙏🙇🙍

The curve in the bamboo cut is oddly simarar to the slant in their eyes, fascinating.

*reads the toxic comments while i eat popcorn* americans

"If Senzo Tanaka is your shidoshi, then show us the Dim Mak."

Maravilhoso simplismente maravilhoso

The old man is calm and civilized and everything, but what he’s talking about is quite insane. Who needs the particular skills to behead someone without causing pain in 21s century?

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"If a samurai decapitates a man with this bad technique, it would cause great pain." Who exactly told him? Even if he's talking to a dead guy he would need to be decapitated twice to compare.

Beautiful.

Perfection is a beautiful thing.