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  2. Japanese sword mountings - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of a katana and koshirae with components identified. Fuchi (縁): The fuchi is a hilt collar between the tsuka and the tsuba.; Habaki (鎺): The habaki is a wedge-shaped metal collar used to keep the sword from falling out of the saya and to support the fittings below; fitted at the ha-machi and mune-machi which precede the nakago.

  3. List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) - Wikipedia

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    Tachi long swords were worn edge down suspended by two cords or chains from the waist belt. The cords were attached to two eyelets on the scabbard. [148] Decorative sword mountings of the kazari-tachi type carried on the tradition of ancient straight Chinese style tachi and were used by nobles at court ceremonies until the Muromachi period ...

  4. Scabbard - Wikipedia

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    In the event swords and scabbards were quickly discarded except for use by mounted cavalry. [9] Some military police forces, naval shore patrols, law enforcement and other groups used leather scabbards as a kind of truncheon. Mounting for a Japanese short sword 18th century. Metropolitan Museum of Art

  5. Imperial Regalia of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Although there are some medieval texts relating to the loss of the sword, which variously contended that a replica was forged afterwards, or that the lost sword itself was a replica, or even that the sword was returned to land by supernatural forces; [8] [9] replicas of the sword and mirror were actually made as early as the 9th century, and ...

  6. Commemorative plaque - Wikipedia

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    A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing. Most such ...

  7. Ema (Shinto) - Wikipedia

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    Ema at Itsukushima Shrine. Ema (絵馬, lit. ' picture-horse ') are small wooden plaques, common to Japan, in which Shinto and Buddhist worshippers write prayers or wishes. Ema are left hanging up at the shrine, where the kami (spirits or gods) are believed to receive them.

  8. Seven-Branched Sword - Wikipedia

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    The sword has been stored in the Isonokami Shrine since ancient times. The inscription on the blade had been hidden by rust and was rediscovered in the 1870s by Masatomo Kan, a Shinto priest at the shrine. There is a two-sided inscription on the sword which is inlaid in gold. This sword appears to have been mentioned in the Nihon Shoki. [6]

  9. Weapons of pencak silat - Wikipedia

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    Pedang is a general term for sword but occasionally refers to a scythe as well. According to the Sanghyang siksakanda ng karesian canto XVII dated 1518, the sword and kris were the main weapons of the kesatria caste. Southeast Asian swords can differ considerably from one community to another but they are generally made for one-handed use.

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