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Perhaps one of the most famed Kotetsu blades was a fake: that of Kondō Isami, the commander of the late Edo-era patrol force called Shinsengumi.However, this sword was not a Kotetsu, but instead a sword made by the foremost smith of that era (known in Japanese swordmaking history as the shinshin-to era), Minamoto Kiyomaro, and bearing a forged Kotetsu signature made by master signature-faker ...
Wisteria japonica Siebold & Zucc. Wisteriopsis japonica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae , native to Japan , Korea , and the Ryukyu Islands . [ 1 ] It was first described in 1839 as Wisteria japonica . [ 2 ] (
Archaeological excavations dated the oldest sword in Japan from at least as early as second century B.C. [2]: 4 The Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon Shoki (History of Japan), ancient texts on early Japanese history and myth that were compiled in the eighth century A.D., describe iron swords and swordsmanship that pre-date recorded history, attributed to the mythological age of ...
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.
Wisteria’s retail store [1] [2] opened in November 2010, and is located in Dallas, Texas, USA across from Dallas Love Field Airport. Wisteria products have been featured in a variety of television shows, movies, and home décor magazines, including House Beautiful, [3] Country Living, [4] and Better Homes and Gardens.
The most common depiction, especially in the Western world, of the Katana is a weapon of unparalleled power, often bordering on the physically impossible. Katana are often depicted as being inherently "superior" to all other weapons possessing such qualities as being impossibly light, nigh-unbreakable and able to cut through nearly anything.
The tribe was established in 1994 by X. Y. Zhu, [1] based on features of Wisteria pollen. [3] Most older genera that are now placed in Wisterieae were previously placed in the tribe Millettieae . As circumscribed in the 1980s, Millettieae was morphologically diverse and was later found to be polyphyletic .
It was useful for self-defense in indoor spaces where the long-bladed katana and intermediate-length wakizashi were inconvenient. Women carried them in their kimono either in a pocket-like space ( futokoro ) or in the sleeve pouch ( tamoto ) [ 2 ] for self-defense and for ritual suicide by slashing the veins in the left side of the neck.