About this poem:

This poem form is called Dodoitsu.
The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song
form of Japanese origin and is often
about love or humor. It has 26
syllables made of four lines of 7, 7,
7, 5 syllables respectively. It is
unrhymed and non-metrical.
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Kenshin is a former
legendary assassin known as
" Hitokiri Battosa. (rendered as
Battousai the Manslayer.a wandering
samurai, now wielding a
sakabato (??? ? , lit.
"reverse-blade sword"), a
katana that has the cutting
edge on the inwardly curved
side of the sword, thus being
nearly incapable of killing.

Kenshin
practices the Hiten
Mitsurugi-ryu (????? ? ,
lit. "Flying Heaven Honorable
Sword Style"), a fictional
ancient sword art which can
be based on Battojutsu, that
enables him to exercise
superhuman speed and
reflexes , study and predict
his opponent's movements
in battle, as well as perform
many powerful sword
techniques