1. A sword in Final Fantasy wielded by Sephiroth. The sharp cutting part of the blade is 8 linear feet. A very huge sword.
To visualize using a sword like this, pick up a F96T12
fluorescent light bulb, only that the
hilt sticks out further where the pin at the end would go. Take the fluorescent tube and whack someone across the back with it (people actually do this on Youtube videos!). Congratulations, your friend just got a slight taste of the
masamune's sheer power.
2. When you perform a masamune it's when you do the act with the
fluoro tube in #1.
3. They make a masamune that you can buy online, but it is much shorter (58 inches +/- 12 inch) because reality technology hasn't caught up with the technology fictional world of Final Fantasy (
schizo tech). Even then, today's masamune is very long for a samurai sword. Not too pleasant to use for
harakiri rituals (especially in reality where there's no respawn).
Example:
1.
Sephiroth's Masamune cut through both edges of the hydrogen-filled gasbag on the airship at once.
2. In 2008 I want to give my friend a
masamune and inhale some mercury.
3.
Memere bought the masamune from Quickly Vanishing Cash.