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  2. Madara Uchiha - Wikipedia

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    Madara Uchiha (Japanese: うちは マダラ, Hepburn: Uchiha Madara) is a manga and anime character in the Naruto series created by Masashi Kishimoto.He appears for the first time in "Part II" of the manga and the Shippuden anime adaptation(war arc), and serves as a major antagonist of the series.

  3. Katana - Wikipedia

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    Their main weapon was a long naginata and sasuga was a spare weapon. In the Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392) which corresponds to the early Muromachi period (1336–1573), long weapons such as ōdachi were popular, and along with this, sasuga lengthened and finally became katana .

  4. List of martial arts weapons - Wikipedia

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    Weapons used in the world's martial arts can be classified either by type of weapon or by the martial arts school using them. By weapon type. Handheld weapons

  5. Naginata - Wikipedia

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    In the peaceful Edo period, weapons' value as battlefield weapons became diminished and their value for martial arts and self-defense rose. The naginata was accepted as a status symbol and self-defense weapon for women of nobility, resulting in the image that "the Naginata is the main weapon used by women". [8]

  6. Glossary of Japanese swords - Wikipedia

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    shinken (真剣, lit. real sword) – a real sword as opposed to unsharpened or wooden practice weapons (bokutou). [ 50 ] shinogi ( 鎬 , ridge) – ridge running along the side of the sword, generally closer to the back ( mune ) than the cutting edge ( ha ).

  7. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, in the Kamakura period, there was a type of tachi called hirumaki tachi (蛭巻太刀) with a scabbard covered with metal, which was used as a weapon until the Muromachi period. The meaning was a sword wrapped around a leech, and its feature was that a thin metal plate was spirally wrapped around the scabbard, so it was both ...

  8. Japanese martial arts - Wikipedia

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    Minor weapons such as the tantō (短刀; dagger), ryufundo kusari (weighted chain), jutte (十手; helmet-smasher), and kakushi buki (隠武器; secret or disguised weapons) were almost always included in koryū jujutsu. Most of these were battlefield-based systems to be practiced as companion arts to the more common and vital weapon systems.

  9. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a katana and koshirae with components identified. Fuchi (縁): The fuchi is a hilt collar between the tsuka and the tsuba.; Habaki (鎺): The habaki is a wedge-shaped metal collar used to keep the sword from falling out of the saya and to support the fittings below; fitted at the ha-machi and mune-machi which precede the nakago.