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Tokyo National Museum. A katana (刀, かたな) is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the tachi, it was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge facing upward.
Originally, they would carry the sword with the blade turned down. This was a more comfortable way for the armored samurai to carry his very long sword or to draw while mounted. The bulk of the samurai armor made it difficult to draw the sword from any other place on his body. When unarmored, samurai would carry their sword with the blade ...
Lacquered wood. The wakizashi ( Japanese: 脇差, "side inserted [sword]"[ 1]) is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords ( nihontō) [ 2][ 3] worn by the samurai in feudal Japan. Its name refers to the practice of wearing it inserted through one's obi or sash at one's side, whereas the larger tachi sword was worn slung from a cord.
Samurai Swords. Samurai Swords may refer to: Katana, the traditional sword of the samurai. Shogun (1986 board game), a board game renamed as Samurai Swords in 1995 (and then renamed again as Ikusa in 2011) Category: Disambiguation pages.
Japanese swordsmithing. Japanese swordsmithing is the labour-intensive bladesmithing process developed in Japan beginning in the sixth century for forging traditionally made bladed weapons ( nihonto) [ 1][ 2] including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and ya (arrow) .
Samurai. Military equipment of Japan. Weapons of Japan. Japanese metalwork. Japanese lacquerware. Japanese woodwork. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
Blade length. approx. 70–80 cm (28–31 in) Blade type. Curved, single-edged. Scabbard / sheath. Lacquered wood. A tachi ( 太刀) is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword ( nihonto) worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and uchigatana generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when ...
The blade length is 225.43 cm (88.75 in) and the tang is 92.41 cm (36.38 in). The ōdachi (大太刀) (large/great sword) or nodachi (野太刀, field sword)[ 4][ 5][ 6] is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō)[ 7][ 8] used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The Chinese equivalent of this type of sword in terms of ...