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The term has seen a resurgence in the West since the 1980s as referring to a point style of modern tactical knives, designed for piercing or stabbing, though the style isn't present on any traditional tantō. A Tanto knife may refer to an American style of blade based of the Japanese tantō, usually with a squared rather than curved ved tip.
English: Several common and uncommon tanto profiles with cross sections at various key locations. The general blade shape is based on an approximately 25 cm long, 17 mm wide (near the tang), approximately straight hira style blade forged in the early 14th century. This common profile was chosen to allow for easy comparison between styles.
Tantōjutsu (短刀術) is a Japanese term for a variety of traditional Japanese knife fighting systems that used the tantō (短刀), as a knife or dagger. [1] Historically, many women used a version of the tantō, called the kaiken, for self-defense, but warrior women in pre-modern Japan learned one of the tantōjutsu arts to fight in battle.
Tantō, a Japanese combat knife; Tanto, a type of tactical knife tip style or knives with said tip style. Daihatsu Tanto, a concept car based on the Daihatsu Move kei car; Kris Paronto (born 1971), known as Tanto
tantō (短刀, lit. short sword) – knife or dagger (strictly speaking only the former) with a length (nagasa) shorter than 30 cm (12 in) and typically about 26 cm (10 in). Usually constructed in flat style (hira-zukuri). Also called mijikagatana. (also see tanken, kaiken) [27] tō (刀) – single-edged blades (saber/knife) of any size or shape.
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.
Gassan school yoroi-doshi tanto. Signed "Yoshiteru", c. 1865, 0.5 in (13 mm) motogasane, (blade thickness) at the hamachi (the notch at the beginning of the cutting edge), 10 in (250 mm) nagasa (cutting edge), "ayasugi hada” which looks like a series of undulating rolling waves.
The company's products include fixed-blade knives, folding knives, swords, machetes, tomahawks, kukris, blowguns, walking sticks, Tantōs [3] and other martial arts items and training equipment. The knives are used by military and law-enforcement personnel worldwide. [4] [5] Cold Steel is credited with popularizing the American tantō in 1980.