Template:Did you know nominations/Sakakibara Kenkichi
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 09:43, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
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Sakakibara Kenkichi
[edit]- ... that Sakakibara Kenkichi and Yamaoka Tesshū once engaged in a forty-minute sword duel without either striking a single blow?
- ALT1:... that Sakakibara Kenkichi's first public sword demonstration lasted over a week?
- ALT2:... that Sakakibara Kenkichi once split open a steel helmet with a single blow in a demonstration before the Meiji Emperor?
- ALT3:... that Sakakibara Kenkichi's public swordfighting demonstrations led to the development of kendo?
- Reviewed: Khyri Thornton
- Comment: Lot of alts here; take your pick...
Created by Yunshui (talk). Self nominated at 14:54, 28 October 2014 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. All four hooks have inline citations, but I prefer the original one. The article is neutral and I detected no policy issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:40, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
