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Two kusarigama. A kusarigama (Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. "chain-sickle") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain (kusari) with a heavy iron weight (fundo) at the end. The kusarigama is said to have been developed during the Muromachi period.
The kusarigama is made up of three parts: the kama (a wooden handle with a curved blade (traditionally straight) protruding at a right-angle on one end, and a small loop at the other), and the kusari (a chain attached to the kama) and a weight at the end of the chain. In a confrontation the kusari is swung in wide sweeping arcs to distract and ...
Isshin-ryū (一心流) is a traditional school of the Japanese martial art of kusarigamajutsu, the art of using the chain and scythe (). [1] Its exact origin is disputed, and may have been founded as early as the 14th century by the samurai Nen Ami Jion 念阿弥慈恩 (b.1351-?), but the modern-day techniques were compiled and incorporated no later than the 17th century, by the unification ...
A fact from Kusarigama appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 January 2021 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the kusarigama (examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
He was born on 24 April 1940 in Thiruvarur, a town in present-day Tamil Nadu. [3] His mother was Shanmuga Sundarathammal, whose younger brother M. Karunanidhi, [4] (the patriarch of the Karunanidhi family [1]) would later serve five terms as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (between 1969 and 2011).
The Tamil Wikipedia is the largest Wikipedia among Indian languages and the 60th largest Wikipedia by article count (as of 26 January 2025). It is also the first and only Wikipedia of Dravidian origin to possess more than 150,000+ articles (as of 2022).
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On 30 June 2001, M. Karunanidhi, the former chief minister of Tamil Nadu was arrested along with the minister of commerce and industry of the Republic of India Murasoli Maran and the minister of environment and forests of the Republic of India T. R. Baalu. This event marked the first incident in the history of independent India in which ...