Sword Saint

, a Sword Saint who is recognized as one of the best swordsmen who ever lived.

Yagyuu Munenori, a Sword Saint who is recognized as one of the best swordsmen who ever lived.

Sword Saints (剣聖, KenseiWP?) are sword users with supernormal mastery of the blade.

Characteristics

Sword Saints are said to possess an absurd level of sword skill, which allows even one of non-Servant status to hold their ground against Servants. To no one's surprise, a regular swordmaster does not know or have the means to cut anything spiritual; even if they could withstand a Spiritual Being's attack, they still cannot fight without being able to attack. But when someone reaches the level of Sword Saint, they can cut at the soul itself, allowing them to give even Servants a good run for their money.[1]

The Sword Saints are implied to be comparable to Yamato Takeru's Special Technique - Eight-Current Raging Storm. Miyamoto Iori regards the Noble Phantasm as a technique beyond all others exactly like the Sword Saint he saw as a child.[2]

In 1651, shortly after the deaths of Miyamoto Musashi and Yagyuu Munenori, there was no one left to be called a Sword Saint. The reason behind the decline of Japanese swordmasters in the Edo periodWP is that people stopped fighting to the death. There could be some people who still carry vestiges of the previous era, like Miyamoto Iori thanks to his outstanding mentor, but they could only survive for 5 seconds against a Servant.[1]

Sword Saints are said to be able to cut through anything according to Aoko Aozaki. They are able to cut curses and Bounded Fields.[3]

Miyamoto Musashi claims that not even a bona fide Sword Saint could replicate Lostbelt Dioscuri's strike moving close to the speed of light.[4]

Known Sword Saints

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fate/Samurai Remnant launch interview (4Gamer.net) translated by Comun Coutinho.
  2. ↑ Fate/Samurai Remnant - Chapter II: Surging Waves
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Fate/Grand Order - Mahoutsukai no Yoru Collaboration Event - Chapter 5: Detective Cleave-'em
  4. ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 3: Olympus's Reception (Second Half)
  5. ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Little Big Tengu: Farewell to Kamakura, Section One: Meeting Mentor
  6. ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Prelude
  7. ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Cosmos in the Lostbelt - Olympus: The Day to Bring Down Gods, Section 5: Thou Art the Harvest that Reaps the Stars (II)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2
    [v] Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Animation Material I - Kinoko and Takashi Q & A, p.041 [T]
    Q: Sasaki Kojirou spent his entire live sword training in the mountains, so how did he acquire a sword like the Bitchu Aoe (Blue River of Bitchu)? Was he not spending his time farming on the farmlands?

    Q: Sasaki Kojirou spent his entire live sword training in the mountains, so how did he acquire a sword like the Bitchu Aoe (Blue River of Bitchu)? Was he not spending his time farming on the farmlands? <Sunday>

    Nasu: Kojirou is the son of a ordinary farming family, living an ordinary farm life and separated from ordinary common sense. Ordinarily He met a Sword Saint who had retired deep into the mountains, and began his ordinary life in the mountains himself. He was enthralled by the swordsmanship of the Sword Saint, and he began training under him the next day. After one month, the Sword Saint drew his last breath, and Kojirou completely threw himself into the path of a Sword Saint. By the way, what the Sword Saint talked on about was the refined behavior of a swordsman--a communion with nature, so to speak. He did not instruct Kojirou on anything related to sword techniques. The Bitchu Aoe may have been the master's, or perhaps he received it from the Holy Grail when the legendary soul was summoned. It is simply something thought to be part of who he is.
    Takeuchi: So he only witnessed the opening of a performance [referring to swordmanship]... so he's really a genius among geniuses isn't he!?
    Nasu: Isn't it obvious. Don't underestimate a chivalrous man person who is eligible as a Servant despite being nameless. He was raised in both mind and body in those mountains. Even without a katana that Sword Saint can cut through dimensions. Sengo Muramasa, that which can cut even casualty.

    佐々木小次郎は生前ずっと山で剣を振るだけの人生を過こしたそうですが、そうするとどうやって備中青江のような業物を手に入れたので しょうか？というか、ちゃんと農民として農作 業をしたりしてたのでしようか？ ＜Sunday＞

    奈：あの男はフツーの農家の子供で、フツーに村の暮らしとか人間の常識からズレていて、フツーに山奥に隠れるように隠居した剣聖に出会い、フツーに山で暮らすようになったんだ。はじめて剣聖の太刀筋を見た時に心奪われ、翌日から弟子入りするも剣聖はひと月ほどで息を引き取り、後はいびつながらも純粋に剣の道を究めた。ちなみに、剣聖が話してきかせたものは剣士としての雅な立ち振る舞いーーー即ち花鳥風月のみ。剣に関しては佐々木某に何一つ教えなかつた。備中青江は剣聖の持ち物か、 あるいは英霊と して召喚された時に聖杯から与えられた。佐々木小次郎としての出で立ち、と思われます。
    武：じゃあはじめの演舞を見ただけなんだ…… それ、天才の中の天才クラスですよね!?
    奈：あったりめえだっつーの。無名でありながら英霊検索に該当した伊達男舐めんなっつ—の。心身共に山育ちだっつーの。そも剣聖なら刀なんか使わなくても次元を斬るぐらいできるっつ—の。千子村正、因果すら断つっつーの。

  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 15: Ultima Cantica: The Stage of Carnage, Onriedo (Ending)
  10. ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Yagyuu Munenori's Interlude: Kenjutsu Musou, Kenzen Ichinyo
  11. ↑ Fate/Grand Order: Epic of Remnant - Shimosa: The Stage of Carnage, Section 7: Terza Cantica: Paraiso (Beginning)
  12. ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II, Overture
  13. ↑ Fate/Grand Order - Saber Wars II, Dark Maanna
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