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Edo period Antique Japanese wakizashi sword blade showing the horimono, of a chrysanthemum Horimono ( 彫り物 , 彫物 , literally carving, engraving), also known as chōkoku ( 彫刻 , "sculpture"), are the engraved images in the blade of a nihonto ( 日本刀 ) Japanese sword , which may include katana or tantō blades. [ 1 ]
A sword is an edged, ... but these were simple swords made exclusively for mass production, ... parades, reviews, courts-martial, tattoos, and changes of command ...
Lucky Diamond Rich pictured at Montreal, Canada's PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in 2008.. Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971), [1] who goes by the name of Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand-British performance artist, street performer and international performing arts festival performer, whose acts include sword swallowing and juggling on a unicycle.
The wakizashi was one of several short swords available for use by samurai including the yoroi tōshi, and the chisa-katana. The term wakizashi did not originally specify swords of any official blade length [10] and was an abbreviation of wakizashi no katana ("sword thrust at one's side"); the term was applied to companion swords of all sizes. [11]
In heraldry, the cross is also called the Santiago cross or the cruz espada (English: sword cross). [1] It is a charge, or symbol, in the form of a cross.The design combines a cross fitchy or fitchée, one whose lower limb comes to a point, with either a cross fleury, [2] the arms of which end in fleurs-de-lis, or a cross moline where the ends of the arms are forked and rounded.
The deity Acala (known as Fudō Myōō in Japan) is depicted in Buddhist art holding a sword which may or may not be flaming and sometimes described only generically as a treasure sword (宝剣, hōken) or as a vajra-sword (金剛剣, kongō-ken), as the pommel of the sword is shaped like a talon-like vajra (金剛杵, kongō-sho).
While this simple type was never discontinued, more elaborate forms developed alongside it in the course of the Middle Ages. The crossguard could be waisted or bent in the 12th and 13th century. Beginning in the 13th or 14th century, swords were almost universally fitted with a so-called chappe or rain-guard , a piece of leather fitted to the ...
the name in origin referred simply to a double-edged sword, the μάχαιρα δίστομη of the New Testament. [citation needed] fiqār is a corruption of firāq "distinction, division", and the name originally referred to the metaphorical sword discerning between right and wrong. [citation needed]