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2. Katana - Wikipedia

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   Tokyo National Museum. A katana (刀, かたな) is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Developed later than the tachi, it was used by samurai in feudal Japan and worn with the edge facing upward.

3. Wakizashi - Wikipedia

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   Lacquered wood. The wakizashi ( Japanese: 脇差, "side inserted [sword]"[ 1]) is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords ( nihontō) [ 2][ 3] worn by the samurai in feudal Japan. Its name refers to the practice of wearing it inserted through one's obi or sash at one's side, whereas the larger tachi sword was worn slung from a cord.

4. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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   Japanese swords. Two tachi with full mountings (middle and bottom right), a sword with a Shirasaya -style tsuka (top right), a wakizashi (top left), and various tsuba (bottom left). A Japanese sword ( Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.

5. Masamune - Wikipedia

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   Sadamune. Akihiro. Gorō Nyūdō Masamune (五郎入道正宗, Priest Gorō Masamune, c. 1264–1343)[ 2] was a medieval Japanese blacksmith widely acclaimed as Japan's greatest swordsmith. He created swords and daggers, known in Japanese as tachi and tantō, in the Sōshū school. However, many of his forged tachi were made into katana by ...

6. Ōdachi - Wikipedia

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   The blade length is 225.43 cm (88.75 in) and the tang is 92.41 cm (36.38 in). The ōdachi (大太刀) (large/great sword) or nodachi (野太刀, field sword)[ 4][ 5][ 6] is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō)[ 7][ 8] used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The Chinese equivalent of this type of sword in terms of ...

7. List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) - Wikipedia

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   Tachi long swords were worn edge down suspended by two cords or chains from the waist belt. The cords were attached to two eyelets on the scabbard. [148] Decorative sword mountings of the kazari-tachi type carried on the tradition of ancient straight Chinese style tachi and were used by nobles at court ceremonies until the Muromachi period ...