This is the glossary of Japanese swords, including major terms the casual reader might find useful in understanding articles on Japanese swords. Within definitions...

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...

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...

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...

curved, and much more refined Japanese swords (nihontō), occurred gradually over a long period of time, although few extant swords from the transition period...

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,...

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...

(太刀), a Japanese sabre curved sword ōdachi (大太刀), a Japanese great sword Glossary of Japanese swords Types of swords The dictionary definition of 大 at Wiktionary...

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...

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...

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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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...

Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests and traders introduced Christian ideas, Western science...

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...

tantō (短刀, 'short sword') is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tantō dates...

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...

design of wakizashi or chokutō swords or the swords associated with ashigaru. Because of the lack of any physical evidence or antique swords from the...

of redirect targets Korean sword – Swords produced in Korea Japanese sword – Type of traditionally made sword from Japan "dah". Oxford English Dictionary...

battle - spears, swords, bows. Nagoya Japanese Sword Museum, Touken World Kazuhiko Inada (2020), Encyclopedia of the Japanese Swords. p42. ISBN 978-4651200408...

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...

(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...

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...

(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...

Kōkan (1997). The Connoisseur's Book of Japanese Swords. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2071-0. "Glossary". Samurai Museum. Retrieved 2021-09-20...

Retrieved 18 August 2022. Look up Category:Sumo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Glossary of Sumo Terms Sumo Glossary Sumopedia at NHK World-Japan...

extension of jittejutsu. A number of weapons retailers in Japan still sell usable kabutowari. Antique Japanese kabutowari Antique Japanese hachi wari...

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...

"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...

specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and Japanese, anime (a term derived from a shortening of the English word animation) describes...