Talk:Nichirin Sword/@comment-44763576-20200227185243/@comment-44763576-20200303130334

@Howa_howa:

滅殺 messatsu - total destruction.

悪鬼 akki - evil spirit.

悪鬼滅殺 akki messatsu - destroy all evil demons.

The last line is the full phrase enscribed on the blades of all of the pillars; the kanji on Tanjirou's blade is 滅 (metsu - destruction) & it's a part of this phrase as well a part of the title of the manga.

(I used Tangorin to find the kanji, then I compared them to a close up of Tomioka Giyuu's sword from Chapter 1 & a close up of Tanjirou's sword from Chapter 129 to see that they were correct.)