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  2. 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.

  3. 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]

  4. Cold Steel (company) - Wikipedia

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    Cold Steel, Inc., is an American retailer of knives/bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons.Founded in Ventura, California, the company is currently based in Irving, Texas, after an acquisition by GSM Outdoors in 2020. [1]

  5. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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    The diameter of the average katana tsuba is 7.5–8 centimetres (3.0–3.1 in), wakizashi tsuba is 6.2–6.6 cm (2.4–2.6 in), and tantō tsuba is 4.5–6 cm (1.8–2.4 in). During the Muromachi period (1333–1573) and the Momoyama period (1573–1603) Tsuba were more for functionality than for decoration, being made of stronger metals and ...

  6. Japanese swordsmithing - Wikipedia

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    Visual glossary of Japanese sword terms. Japanese swordsmithing is the labour-intensive bladesmithing process developed in Japan beginning in the sixth century for forging traditionally made bladed weapons [1] [2] including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and ya.

  7. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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    Townspeople and farmers were allowed to equip a short wakizashi, and the public were often equipped with wakizashi on their travels. [83] [84] Under the Tokugawa shogunate, swordmaking and the use of firearms declined. [85] Japanese swords made in this period is classified as shintō. [86] A tantō forged by Minamoto Kiyomaro. Late Edo period.

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    Known online as "The Ice Skating Sisters," Alydia and Everly died with their parents in the mid-air collision over the Potomac this week.

  9. Glossary of Japanese swords - Wikipedia

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    Commonly a wakizashi. sori (反り, curvature) – curvature of the sword measured as the greatest perpendicular distance between the back edge (mune) and the chord connecting the back edge notch (munemachi) with the point of the blade. [40] sugata (姿, shape) – the overall shape of the blade. [52] suguha (直刃) – straight temper line ...

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