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  2. Ōdachi - Wikipedia

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    Ōdachi became popular in Kamakura period (1185-1333). Until the middle of the Kamakura period, high-ranking samurai mainly fought on horseback with yumi (bows), but as group battles by foot soldiers increased from the late Kamakura period, the importance of weapons possessed by those who did not have horses and did not have sufficient training in bows increased.

  3. File:Samurai with sword.jpg - Wikipedia

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  4. Katana - Wikipedia

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    [13] [29] [40] Samurai could wear decorative sword mountings in their daily lives, but the Tokugawa shogunate regulated the formal sword that samurai wore when visiting a castle by regulating it as a daisho made of a black scabbard, a hilt wrapped with white ray skin and black string. [41] Japanese swords made in this period are classified as ...

  5. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Samurai with sword

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    Original - Japanese samurai with sword, ca. 1860 Reason The pic hunted down recently looks like one of the few decent samurai photos on the web (most likely, features a katana). Articles in which this image appears Samurai, Sword FP category for this image History Creator Felice Beato. Support as nominator--Twilight chill t 20:39, 31 August ...

  6. Nagamaki - Wikipedia

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    The nagamaki was a long sword with a blade that could be 60 cm (24 in) or more and a handle of about equal length to the blade. [3] The blade was single-edged, resembling a naginata blade, but the handle (tsuka) of the nagamaki was not a smooth-surfaced wooden shaft as in the naginata; it was made more like a katana hilt.

  7. Wakizashi - Wikipedia

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    The wakizashi was one of several short swords available for use by samurai including the yoroi tōshi, and the chisa-katana. The term wakizashi did not originally specify swords of any official blade length [10] and was an abbreviation of wakizashi no katana ("sword thrust at one's side"); the term was applied to companion swords of all sizes. [11]

  8. Yoroi-dōshi - Wikipedia

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    The yoroi-dōshi is an extra thick tantō, a short sword, which appeared in the Sengoku period (late Muromachi) of the 14th and 15th centuries. [4] The yoroi-dōshi was made for piercing armour [5] and for stabbing while grappling in close quarters.

  9. Kabutowari - Wikipedia

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    It would appear, according to Serge Mol, that tales of samurai breaking open a kabuto (helmet) are more folklore than anything else. [6] The hachi (helmet bowl) is the central component of a kabuto; it is made of triangular plates of steel or iron riveted together at the sides and at the top to a large, thick grommet of sorts (called a tehen-no-kanamono), and at the bottom to a metal strip ...