Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26993711-20160324045212/@comment-734582-20160410115721

SuperSaiyaMan wrote: Hell if it was just sake it should be used by spraying it into the target's mouth, not as a blade that needs to pierce to put it into a fuinjutsu and genjutsu. Then the whole Susanoo/Orochi/Kusanagi/Yata/Yasaka/Totsuka symbolism wouldn't work anymore.

According to the legend, Susanoo defeated Orochi with a Totsuka blade (it's a type of blade) while making the snake drunk with Sake. It's why Orochimaru (based on Orochi) was defeated by the Totsuka blade, why Itachi's Susanoo wielded those weapons. And why, against any sense of logic, the Totsuka blade in Naruto is made of Sake.

I'm just going to mention this again: there's no reason to believe that the Yata and Totsuka in Susanoo's possession were the actual weapons. People have "stored" weapons before and have channeled those weapons through other jutsu before.