Elvis?! Wait...no. It was menuki. Menuki are those pretty little things under the wrap on Japanese swords. They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and a good number of materials (Though it's almost always metal of some sort; iron, steel, copper, silver, shakudo, shibuchi, etc.). Sometimes they're animals, sometimes they're plants, sometimes they're people, sometimes they're things like mon (crests), weapons, buildings, or simple shapes. Now that we have ...
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