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A tachi is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and uchigatana generally differ in length, degree of curvature, and how they were worn when sheathed, the latter depending on the location of the mei (銘), or signature, on the tang.
Two of Masamune's ten excellent students (juttetsu), Norishige and Gō Yoshihiro, lived in Etchū Province at the end of the Kamakura period. [125] While none of Gō Yoshihiro's works is signed, there are extant signed tantō and tachi by Norishige. [56] One tantō by Norishige and two katana by Gō Yoshihiro have been designated as national ...
The Kara-tachi sword with gilded silver fittings and inlay (金銀鈿荘唐大刀, kin gin den kazari no kara-tachi) is an 8th century Japanese sword in the chokutō (直刀, lit. ' straight sword ') style. It was one of Emperor Shōmu's favorite swords and was handed down in the Shōsōin Repository.
The kawatsutsumi tachi was stronger than the kurourushi tachi because its hilt was wrapped in leather or ray skin, lacquer was painted on top of it, leather straps and cords were wrapped around it, and the scabbard and sometimes the tsuba (hand guard) were also wrapped in leather. [56] Edo period ukiyo-e shows an ōdachi worn on the back of a ...
Mounting for a sword of the itomaki no tachi type with design of mon (family crests). 1600s. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The tachi (太刀) style koshirae is the primary style of mounting used for the tachi, where the sword is suspended edge-down from two hangers (ashi) attached to the obi. [5]
Yamatorige (山鳥毛, "feather of a copper pheasant"), equally known as Sanchōmō by its Sino-Japanese reading, is a tachi (Japanese greatsword) forged during the middle Kamakura period (13th century). The set of the blade and its koshirae (mountings) is a National Treasure of Japan.
SaGa Frontier, the final boss of Blue's story is depicted as wielding a Seven Branched Sword in its humanoid form. Tenchu: Stealth Assassins, the final villain Lord Mei-Oh wields the Shichishito, a seven-branched sword. Soul Eater, in chapter 108 of Soul Eater manga, Black Star's 3 sworded Oni attack resembles to Seven-Branched Sword.
He was the head of a group of swordsmiths employed by the Emperor of Japan to make weapons for his warriors. His son, Amakura, was the successor to his work. Although there are almost no modern examples of signed works by Amakuni, legend has it that the double-edged katana, Kogarasu Maru, was forged by this man. The true author of this work is ...