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700 CE: Steel-bladed swords are first made in Japan.
1580 CE: It becomes fashionable for Japanese samurai to wear two swords: the daisho ("great and small").
1588 CE: Toyotomi Hideyoshi prohibits commoners from carrying weapons, including swords.