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Hugh Beyer wrote:
Offhand, I don't recall ever having seen such a picture.
So that definitely settles it.
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I am not sure what you mean by
it. It seems that the founder consistently used bokkens without a tsuba. Isn't this something worth considering?
Anyway, I think that the (not very satisfying) answer to the OP's question is "because this is the way the founder did it".