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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 kama (鎌 or かま) is a traditional Japanese farming implement similar to a sickle or billhook used for reaping crops and also employed as a weapon. It is often included in weapon training segments of martial arts .
Kama-yari (鎌槍, "sickle spear") gets its name from a peasant weapon or tool called kama (lit. "sickle" or "scythe"). Katakama yari spearhead owned by Kato Kiyomasa. Muromachi period, 16th century, Tokyo National Museum. Kata kamayari (片鎌槍, "single-sided sickle spear") had a weapon design sporting a blade that was two-pronged.
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 ...
Harpe, a Greek or Roman long sickle or scythe which doubled as a weapon; Kama (tool), a Japanese hand scythe used in farming, and martial arts; Khopesh, an Egyptian long sickle or scythe as a weapon; Scythe sword, scythe blade converted to use as a weapon; Sickle, the archetypal forerunner of the scythe
"Kamaitachi" (窮奇) from the "Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien "Kamaitachi" (鎌鼬) from the Kyōka Hyaku Monogatari by Masasumi RyūkansaijinKamaitachi (鎌鼬) is a Japanese yōkai from the oral tradition of the Kōshin'etsu region.
Okinawan kusarigama is a rare chain (鎖) and sickle (鎌) weapon found in the Okinawan kobudō weapons set. A noted modern practitioner of the weapon was Seike Toma, a student of Chōtoku Kyan and a teacher of Seikichi Odo.
Okinawan Kobudō is a Japanese term that can be translated as "old martial way of Okinawa".It is a generic term coined in the twentieth century. [1]Okinawan kobudō refers to the weapon systems of Okinawan martial arts.