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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.
[8] [19] In Japan there is a saying about swords: "No sword made by modifying a naginata or a nagamaki is dull in cutting" (薙刀（長巻）直しに鈍刀なし). The meaning of this saying is that naginata and nagamaki are equipment for actual combat, not works of art or offerings to the kami , and that the sharpness and durability of ...
Battle of Nyoigatake (1509) ja:如意ケ嶽の戦い; Battle of Nagamorihara (1510) ja:長森原の戦い; Siege of Gongenyama (1510) Siege of Arai (1516) Battle of Arita-Nakaide (1517) ja:有田中井手の戦い; Battle of Iidagawara (1521) Ningbo Turmoil (1523) ja:寧波の乱; Siege of Edo (1524) Siege of Kamakura (1526) Battle of ...
In the late Heian period, battles on foot began to increase and naginata, a bladed polearm, became a main weapon along with a yumi. [8] The attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281 was one of the factors that changed Japanese weaponry and warfare. The Mongols employed Chinese and Korean footmen wielding long pikes and fought in ...
Onna-musha (女武者) is a term referring to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, [1] [2] who were members of the bushi class. They were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war; [3] [4] many of them fought in battle alongside samurai men. [5] [6]
Nakano Takeko (中野 竹子, April 1847 – 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domain, who fought and died during the Boshin War.During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently.
The practice at this time was called naginata-dō (薙刀道; lit. "way of the naginata"). After Japan's defeat in World War II, the practice was remodeled, resulting in two naginata practices: koryū naginata (古流薙刀; "old" or classical naginata) and atarashii naginata (新しいなぎなた; "new" or modern naginata).
A copy of the code book was obtained in a "black bag" operation on the luggage of a Japanese naval attaché in 1923; after three years of work Agnes Driscoll was able to break the additive portion of the code. [2] [3] [4] Knowledge of the Red Book code helped crack the similarly constructed Blue Book code. [1]