This is the glossary of Japanese swords, including major terms the casual reader might find useful in understanding articles on Japanese swords. Within definitions...
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A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as...
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Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu) that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored...
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Muramasa (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
iori-mune, and chū-kissaki nobi (see also Glossary of Japanese swords). The front side contains a sign of Muramasa and a mantra sign myōhō renge kyō...
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curved, and much more refined Japanese swords (nihontō), occurred gradually over a long period of time, although few extant swords from the transition period...
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villain. Many legends surround Japanese swords, the most frequent being that the blades are folded an immense number of times, gaining magical properties...
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Hamon (swordsmithing) (redirect from Hamon (Japanese Swords))
they are rarely found in swords or weapons where a lot of shear and impact forces may be encountered. Glossary of Japanese swords Pattern welding Smith,...
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Wakizashi (category Samurai swords)
wakizashi (Japanese: 脇差, "side inserted sword") is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) worn by the samurai in feudal Japan. Its name...
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A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration, and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times is a reference work written by George Cameron Stone...
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non-folded steel swords for several hundred. Some practicing martial artists prefer modern swords, whether of this type or made in Japan by Japanese craftsmen...
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as "a rarity". Great swords or greatswords are related to the long swords of the Middle Ages.[dubious – discuss] The great sword was developed during...
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The Japanese war fan, or tessen (Japanese: 鉄扇,てっせん, romanized: tessen, lit. '"iron fan"'), is a Japanese hand fan used as a weapon or for signalling. Several...
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Yoroi-dōshi (category Samurai swords)
piercer", is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) that were worn by the samurai class as a weapon in feudal Japan. The yoroi-dōshi...
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Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests and traders introduced Christian ideas, Western science...
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Tantō (category Samurai swords)
'small dagger') is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tantō dates to the...
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of redirect targets Korean sword – Swords produced in Korea Japanese sword – Type of traditionally made sword from Japan "dah". Oxford English Dictionary...
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Ninjatō (redirect from Ninja sword)
design of wakizashi or chokutō swords or the swords associated with ashigaru—common infantrymen with no "ninja" aspects. Because of the lack of any physical...
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Naginata (category Japanese sword types)
battle - spears, swords, bows. Nagoya Japanese Sword Museum, Touken World Kazuhiko Inada (2020), Encyclopedia of the Japanese Swords. p42. ISBN 978-4651200408...
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15th centuries), late forms of these swords continued to be used, but often as a sidearm, at that point called "arming swords" and contrasting with the...
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Kaiken (dagger) (category Samurai swords)
(守り刀, 'protection sword/blade'). Japanese sword Tantō Stone, George Cameron (1999). Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in...
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(794–1185), the unique Japanese samurai armour ō-yoroi and dō-maru appeared. The Japanese cuirass evolved into the more familiar style of body armour worn by...
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Kōkan (1997). The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2071-0. "Glossary". Samurai Museum. Retrieved 2021-09-20...
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swordmaking until 1970 and stopped making swords entirely after approximately 1978. Glossary of Japanese swords Fujishiro, Okisato Yasukuni-to, Token Bijutsu...
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Amatsu-Mikaboshi (category CS1 Japanese-language sources (ja))
God of Stars who have gifted two stellar-demon swords of light and shadow, Zanseiken and Bakuseiken, to Earth in Nara Japan, later the two swords wielded...
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Kabutowari (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
extension of jittejutsu. A number of weapons retailers in Japan still sell usable kabutowari. Antique Japanese kabutowari Antique Japanese hachi wari...
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Xiphos (category Ancient European swords)
the era of the Greco-Persian Wars. Stone's Glossary has xiphos being a name used by Homer for a sword. The entry in the book says that the sword had a double-edged...
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Shamshir (category Middle Eastern swords)
"foreign sword"). "Shamshir" is usually taken to be the root of the word scimitar, the latter being a broader term. Acinaces Arab swords Mameluke sword Pulwar...
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University of Fine Arts and Music, 1983: Hachiro Oguchi, "Japanese Shakudo": "shakudo finds mention ... Japanese swords of the Edo period ... the sword owned...
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