Samurai fashion guide – Should you wear your sword blade-up or blade-down? soranews24.com

Or, if you’re going to meet up with your fellow samurai, should your sword point upwards or downwards?
If you’ve watched a lot of period dramas, you might have noticed that sometimes samurai wear their curved swords with the cutting edge facing the ground, and other times facing the sky.
The samurai who carried them were often dressed in a full suit of armor, with the sword hanging from a cord attached to the waist.
Anything that was going to protect a samurai on the battlefield needed to be crafted from sturdy, heavy metal.
Having the sword’s edge facing the ground would put the sword’s hilt especially high, level with the ribcage.