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Modern sallet repro.

>>3539268 and thus you learn how to carefully parry attacks which lessens the chances of the katana breaking.
Which are quite similar to stuff we see in, for example, European longsword fencing.

>>Parrying doesn't stun the opponent as good as a full out block does though
On the other hand, you can often help yourself to some extra speed from the opponents attack, making for a truly devastating counter.

>>3539750 Shields were very rare and considerd "specialised" equipment mainly for sieges and such
Not in pre-1400 Europe, no.

>>it was much more likely they would of carried a sword breaker in the other hand.
Sword breakers don't turn up until the typical knight has left the battlefield for good, and from what I can tell, they were never common, and probably not military weapons either.

All in all, I recommend that you relabel whatever you're using as a source for this as "pure fiction, any correlation to reality being purely by chance".