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  2. Naginata - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Naginata were originally used by the samurai class of feudal Japan, as well as by ashigaru (foot soldiers) and sōhei (warrior monks). [3] The naginata is the iconic weapon of the onna-musha, a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese nobility. A common misconception is that the Naginata is a type of sword, rather than a polearm.

  3. Japanese swords in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Saeko received a historical Meiji era Gunto which is a Kissaki Moroha Zukuri style Katana personally created by General Murata as her new weapon for fighting zombies. In One Piece, a large majority of legendary swords are Japanese Katana, with one of the main characters, Roronoa Zoro having collected a total of five legendary Katana during his ...

  4. Category:Samurai weapons and equipment - Wikipedia

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  5. Nagasone Kotetsu - Wikipedia

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    Perhaps one of the most famed Kotetsu blades was a fake: that of Kondō Isami, the commander of the late Edo-era patrol force called Shinsengumi.However, this sword was not a Kotetsu, but instead a sword made by the foremost smith of that era (known in Japanese swordmaking history as the shinshin-to era), Minamoto Kiyomaro, and bearing a forged Kotetsu signature made by master signature-faker ...

  6. Katana - Wikipedia

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    Their main weapon was a long naginata and sasuga was a spare weapon. In the Nanboku-chō period (1336–1392) which corresponds to the early Muromachi period (1336–1573), long weapons such as ōdachi were popular, and along with this, sasuga lengthened and finally became katana .

  7. Netflix Live-Action One Piece – Full Main Cast List - AOL

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    The main cast in Netflix’s One Piece consists of the first five members of the Straw Hat Crew: Luffy, Nami, Zoro, Usopp, and Sanji. It also includes the primary Marine trio, Koby, Helmeppo, and ...

  8. Japanese sword - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, yumi were the main weapon of war in Japan, and tachi and naginata were used only for close combat. The Ōnin War in the late 15th century in the Muromachi period expanded into a large-scale domestic war, in which employed farmers called ashigaru were mobilized in large numbers.

  9. Shogun: How an Englishman from Kent made an ... - AOL

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    The shogun presented Adams with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the pilot was dead and that Miura Anjin, a samurai, was born in his place.