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2. Nagasone Kotetsu - Wikipedia

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   Perhaps one of the most famed Kotetsu blades was a fake: that of Kondō Isami, the commander of the late Edo-era patrol force called Shinsengumi.However, this sword was not a Kotetsu, but instead a sword made by the foremost smith of that era (known in Japanese swordmaking history as the shinshin-to era), Minamoto Kiyomaro, and bearing a forged Kotetsu signature made by master signature-faker ...

3. Category:Katana Engine games - Wikipedia

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4. Wisteria (catalog) - Wikipedia

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   Wisteria is an American-based retail company specializing in home and garden furnishings, clothing, jewelry, gifts as well as vintage and antique items from around the world. Privately owned by Andrew and Shannon Newsom, it began in 2000, placing ads in Veranda Magazine. In 2001, Wisteria sent out its first catalog.

5. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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   Blades whose length is next to a different classification type are described with a prefix 'O-' (for great) or 'Ko-' (for small), e.g. a Wakizashi with a length of 59 cm is called an O-wakizashi (almost a Katana) whereas a Katana of 61 cm is called a Ko-Katana (for small Katana; but note that a small accessory blade sometimes found in the ...

6. Tenka-Goken - Wikipedia

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   Length 78.3 cm. [8] Owned by the Imperial Household Agency. Along with Ōdenta and Futatsu-mei, the sword was considered to be one of the three regalia swords of the shōguns of the Ashikaga clan . [ 6 ] [ 8 ] The epic Taiheiki includes a story that the sword moved by itself and killed an oni demon who was cursing Hōjō Tokimasa , from which ...

7. Iaijutsu - Wikipedia

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   Archaeological excavations dated the oldest sword in Japan from at least as early as second century B.C. [2]: 4 The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki (History of Japan), ancient texts on early Japanese history and myth that were compiled in the eighth century A.D., describe iron swords and swordsmanship that pre-date recorded history, attributed to the mythological age of ...

8. Katana - Wikipedia

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   The word katana first appears in Japanese in the Nihon Shoki of 720. The term is a compound of kata ("one side, one-sided") + na ("blade"), [6] [7] [8] in contrast to the double-sided tsurugi. The katana belongs to the nihontō family of swords, and is distinguished by a blade length (nagasa) of more than 2 shaku, approximately 60 cm (24 in). [9]

9. Japanese swords in fiction - Wikipedia

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   Michonne wields a katana as her main weapon in The Walking Dead franchise. The ronin lightsaber [3] is used by Ochi of Bestoon in the Star Wars universe, featured prominently in the film "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" (2019). The lightsaber's design embodies this concept, featuring a hilt that resembles a traditional katana sword handle ...