A walking cane is the first weapon that most Kenpo studios teach because they are commonplace, legal, don't arouse suspicion, and over 90% of the techniques you learn with them translate directly to sword techniques later on.
Noteworthy as well is that Miyamoto Musashi, Ronin and author of the Book of Five Rings, killed several samurai in duels armed only with a bokken. His opponents were wielding katana or nodachi.
The weapon doesn't make the man, the man makes the weapon.
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