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| AndyB |
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Believe it's called the Wakizashi
Posted: 08-May-2008 12:40
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| AndyB |
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Or the Tanto
Posted: 08-May-2008 12:45
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| Col. Kurtz |
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It's the Wakizashi and it was usually worn with the Katana.
Posted: 29-May-2008 11:58
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| Furinkazan |
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Samurai used mostly the tanto(=more or less a knife with a tsuba(=guard)) on the battlefield or an aekuchi(=same as tanto but without tsuba). More rarely they wore a wakizashi on the battlefield. During peacetime samurai wore the daishô(means literrally 'big/short'). This was to distinct them from other classes. It was always composed of a katana and a wakizashi.
Posted: 04-Jul-2008 22:52
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| razorsedge |
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Katana and Wakizashi, also referred to as the Daisho "Long and short" ( Daito and Shoto, "to" being "blade" ). A knife was also carried ( tanto or kodachi ).
The earlier blades were the tachi and the ken. Later World War Two blades were called gunto.
Posted: 04-Feb-2011 02:32
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