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The daishō (大小, daishō) —"large and small" [1] —is a Japanese term for a matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords worn by the samurai class in feudal Japan. The etymology of the word daishō becomes apparent when the terms daitō, meaning long sword, and shōtō, meaning short sword, are used; daitō + shōtō = daishō. [2]
Blox Fruits (formerly known as Blox Piece), is an action fighting game created by Gamer Robot that is inspired by the manga and anime One Piece. [155] In the game, players choose to be a master swordsman, a powerful fruit user, a martial arts attacker or a gun user as they sail across the seas alone or in a team in search of various worlds and ...
Dadao (大刀), a Chinese short sword, an alternate term for the dao (Chinese sword) Tachi (大刀), a Heian Era sword, a version of the chokutō (直刀), a Japanese straight sword; Daitō (long sword) (大刀), the Japanese long sword classification, longer than 2 shaku (2 ft)
The Wii is Nintendo's fifth home video game console, released during the seventh generation of video games.It is the successor to the GameCube, and was first launched in North America on November 19, 2006, followed by a launch in Japan and PAL regions in December 2006.
The USDA reported that US egg production dropped 4% year over year, totaling 9.19 billion in October 2024. The bird flu caused the loss of 2.8 million egg-laying birds in Utah, Washington, and ...
Daisho (Dso) is an antimicrobial peptide gene family of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Two Daisho genes (Dso1, Dso2) are encoded in tandem in the fruit fly genome, one shorter than the other. This pair of genes with different length was named "Daisho" in reference to Daisho Japanese swords, which come in pairs with one shorter than the ...
President Joe Biden is facing mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and allies to extend protections to immigrants in the United States amid party fears over President-elect Donald Trump’s ...
The bride-to-be was found in her kitchen with 20 stab wounds, a knife in her chest, with a half-made fruit salad on the countertop during a blizzard on Jan. 6, 2011.