孤こ剣けん

noun

sole sword; unarmed but for a sword

Literary term describing a lone swordsman with only a sword, often evoking a solitary, vulnerable, or resolute figure. Rare in modern everyday speech.

• 彼かれは孤こ剣けんで敵てき陣じんに乗のり込こんだ。

  He charged into the enemy camp with only his sword.

• 孤こ剣けんの士しが荒こう野やを歩あるいている。

  A lone swordsman walks across the wilderness.