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2. Katana - Wikipedia

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   Two-handed swept, with circular or squared guard. Scabbard / sheath. Lacquered wood, some are covered with fish skin, decorated with brass and copper. [2] [3] 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.

3. Japanese swordsmithing - Wikipedia

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   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) .

4. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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   Japanese swords. Two tachi with full mountings (middle and bottom right), a sword with a Shirasaya -style tsuka (top right), a wakizashi (top left), and various tsuba (bottom left). A Japanese sword ( Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.

5. Daishō - Wikipedia

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   The daishō ( 大小, daishō) —"large and small" [1] —is a Japanese term for a matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords ( nihonto) worn by the samurai class in feudal Japan . The etymology of the word daishō becomes apparent when the terms daitō, meaning long sword, and shōtō, meaning short sword, are used; daitō + shōtō ...

6. Wakizashi - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. Masamune - Wikipedia

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   Hiromitsu. Sadamune. Akihiro. Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (五郎入道正宗, Priest Gorō Masamune, c. 1264–1343) [2] was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō, in the Sōshū school. However, many of his forged tachi were made into ...