6 zoro's katana

Zoro is a master swordsman, being able to use one, two, and three swords in varying attack styles, going from melee-type all the way to artillery. Although he is most comfortable with his Santōryū (literally: three sword style), his skills with a single sword are very good, being able to hold off the Nyaban brothers, having bested several of the lower-ranked members of Arlong's crew (his two other swords were destroyed by Mihawk, leaving him only with the Wado Ichimonji), defeating Mr. 1, and most recently the zombie, Ryuuma. Lacking a third hand for a third sword, Zoro holds his third sword in his mouth.Zoro till nowadays has alreday used 6 swords:
Wado Ichimonji The One Road of Harmony, sometimes called "Ghost". It has a white hilt and scabbard and is the smallest of Zoro's swords, the one he places in his mouth for attacking. It was Kuina's sword.

Sandai Kitetsu - Third Generation Demon-Splitter. Sandai is a cursed Wazamono sword, its previous owners all having met with a horrible fate. It has a red hilt and red scabbard with gold trim. Zoro has said that this sword is a "problem child" and doesn't "obey" him like the others do sometimes.

Shuusui - Clear Autumn Water. This is another one of the world's 21 legendary swords, an O-wazamono. The hilt and scabbard are jet black. The character he won the sword from is named "Ryuma". This is noteworthy because Monsters was an early Oda story created prior to the start of One Piece. In it, a samurai named Ryuma from a world similar to Japan killed a dragon terrorizing the people...with a sword similiar to this one.

Previous Katana

Zoro has presumably destroyed countless swords (all except Wado Ichimonji and Sandai Kitetsu). He will sometimes use whatever swords he can find in a battle, grabbing a marine officer's cutlass or fallen enemy's katana to finish a fight if one of his has broken or he doesn't have his own weapons on hand.


Nose Storm - Zoro made Sogeking into his sword at one point when they were chained together with sea stone cuffs. He gave a sword to Sogeking and told him to be still while he swung him as the katana.



Yubashiri - Snow RunSomewhat amusing name because the sheath was black (with gold trim). Some single-panel marine with a rust fruit completely destroyed this sword during the Buster Call. It was a terrific blow to him as he had been given it for free by Ippon-Matsu and it was a Wazamono like Sandai Kitetsu. He carried the hilt with him until he won Shuusui from Ryuuma.
Wazamono Swords

Japanese swords have long been noted for their sharpness (wazamono, "the swords which cut well"). This was judged by testing the cutting ability of the sword on bodies of condemned criminals (tests were made on older men or strong, fit men to see how well the blade would cut). The practice of test cutting is called tameshigiri. The bodies were mounted on a cutting stand and specific slices were made, the executioners carefully recording the data for reference. The sword was judged on how many bodies were severed with each type of cut, the parts of the subjects being ranked with areas that were harder to cut than others. The Yamada family were noted as testers of the blades and compiled one of the lists ( that one here as it is the most frequently used).