Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25360536-20141013154617/@comment-25360536-20141023161756

AvalonFlow wrote: You're probably taking Byakuya's zanpakuto's name too literally; yes, Senbonzakura literally means a thousand cherry blossoms, it doesn't mean that it must always have a thousand petals.

For example, Sogyo no Kotowari means Truth of Pisces, and although Pisces has two fish and said zanpakuto has 2 swords, the zanpakuto doesn't actually have anything to do with fish. It is stated many times on the series the quantity, but on different traductions, this numbers are also different. But his Shikai i think it always was stated it was a thousand and it's bankai a million, a billion, or some of this numbers.