There’s a question that often appears in martial arts novels.
“What is a sword?”
And there are various answers to that.
A tool for killing people, a tool for saving lives, a means to enforce one’s beliefs, a power that changes the world.
This question isn’t just asking how one views a sword, but showing what path a warrior, a martial artist, will follow.
However, that is a story of a warrior living in the world of martial arts.
If the same question were asked to people living in the modern world, especially in Korea, they would likely give this answer:
