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It was only folded so many times because the ore on Honshu is pretty low grade and had to have the carbon worked out of it more than European steel.
As I understand it, it wasn't to work the carbon out of it, but instead to simply evenly spread the impurities throughout the whole sword, so there weren't any specific points of weakness