Daishō

Many Canadians have travelled to international locations and others visited a one-day pop-up the company held in 2017 at the now defunct Momofuku Daishō in Toronto.

Daishō eventually came to mean two swords having a matched set of fittings.

During the Edo period samurai went about on foot unarmored, and with much less combat being fought on horseback in open battlefields the need for an effective close quarter weapon resulted in samurai being armed with daishō.

Even when a daishō contained a pair of blades by the same smith, they were not always forged as a pair or mounted as one.

If a samurai was able to afford a daishō, it was often composed of whichever two swords could be conveniently acquired, sometimes by different smiths and in different styles.