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  2. Kaiken (dagger) - Wikipedia

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    Kaiken. (dagger) Japanese kaiken -style tantō. A kaiken (懐剣) is a 20–25 cm (7.9–9.8 in) long, single or (very rarely) double-edged Japanese knife [1] usually without ornamental fittings housed in a plain but lacquered mount.

  3. Tantō - Wikipedia

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    The tantō is a single or double edged dagger with a length between 15 and 30 cm (6 and 12 in) (1 Japanese shaku). The tantō was designed primarily as a stabbing weapon, but the edge can be used for slashing as well. Tantō are generally forged in the hira-zukuri (平造) style (without a ridgeline), [1][5] meaning that their sides have no ...

  4. Tantojutsu - Wikipedia

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    Tantojutsu. Tantōjutsu (短刀術) is a Japanese term for a variety of traditional Japanese knife fighting systems that used the tantō (短刀), as a knife or dagger. [1] Historically, many women used a version of the tantō, called the kaiken, for self-defense, but warrior women in pre-modern Japan learned one of the tantōjutsu arts to ...

  5. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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    The kaiken (懐剣) is an 8–10 inch long, single- or double-edged dagger [11] without ornamental fittings housed in a plain mount, formerly carried by men and women of the samurai class in Japan. It was useful for self-defense indoors where the long katana and intermediate wakizashi were inconvenient.

  6. Glossary of Japanese swords - Wikipedia

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    tantō (短刀, lit. short sword) – knife or dagger (strictly speaking only the former) with a length (nagasa) shorter than 30 cm (12 in) and typically about 26 cm (10 in). Usually constructed in flat style (hira-zukuri). Also called mijikagatana. (also see tanken, kaiken) [27] tō (刀) – single-edged blades (saber/knife) of any size or shape.

  7. Aritsugu - Wikipedia

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    Aritsugu is a Japanese knife and cooking utensil producer and store, founded by Fujiwara Aritsugu in 1560. It is one of the oldest knifemakers in Japan and one of the oldest companies in the World. [1][2][3] Aritsugu was involved in the production of swords and was appointed a supplier for the Imperial House of Japan, before the requirement for ...

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