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2. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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   Mounting for a sword of the itomaki no tachi type with design of mon (family crests). 1600s. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The tachi (太刀) style koshirae is the primary style of mounting used for the tachi, where the sword is suspended edge-down from two hangers (ashi) attached to the obi. [5]

3. Classification of swords - Wikipedia

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   Hanger or wood-knife, a type of hunting sword or infantry sabre; Certain fascine knives : Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword , is a short sword designed after the Roman gladius with a blade length around 64 cm (25 in) in length.

4. Tachi - Wikipedia

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   The tachi koshirae has two hangers (ashi) so the sword can be worn in a horizontal position with the cutting edge down. [42] A sword not mounted in a tachi koshirae could be worn tachi style by use of a koshiate, a leather device allowing any sword to be worn in the tachi style. [43]

5. Cutlass - Wikipedia

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   The cutlass is a 17th-century descendant of the edged short sword, exemplified by the medieval falchion.. Woodsmen and soldiers in the 17th and 18th centuries used a similar short and broad backsword called a hanger, or in German a messer, meaning "knife".

6. Sword - Wikipedia

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   A sword is an edged, ... Its hilt was ambidextrous with shell-guards and knuckle-bow that inspired 18th-century continental hunting hangers. [78]

7. List of premodern combat weapons - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of historical pre-modern weapons grouped according to their uses, with rough classes set aside for very similar weapons. Some weapons may fit more than one category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons which fit within the period are also included.