The naginata (なぎなた, 薙刀) is a polearm and one of several varieties of traditionally made Japanese blades (nihontō). Naginata were originally used by the...

Naginatajutsu (長刀術 or 薙刀術) is the Japanese martial art of wielding the naginata (長刀). The naginata is a weapon resembling the European glaive and the Chinese guan...

she has impacted much of the warrior class, including many traditional Naginata schools. Her actions in battle received much attention in the arts, such...

fight with great axe and naginata. The Viking swings his axe but is blocked by the naginata. The Samurai twists his naginata and forces the Viking's axe...

not unlike a naginata. A naginata (なぎなた or 薙刀) is a Japanese polearm that was traditionally used by members of the samurai class. A naginata consists of...

archery. In the late Heian period, battles on foot began to increase and naginata, a bladed polearm, became a main weapon along with a yumi (longbow). The...

large scale in dense formations with tanegashima (gun) and yari (spear), naginata (pole weapon), which were difficult to use in dense formations, were replaced...

naginata), and the Japanese sickle-and-chain (kusarigama). The modern version of naginata practice, called "new Naginata" (新しいなぎなた atarashii naginata)...

Historical creations have often depicted scenes of Nōhime wielding a naginata sword alongside Nobunaga against enemy soldiers, but there is no evidence...

Runcing Dangpa Gichang Hoko yari Ji Kama-yari Qiang Sibat Trishula Yari Naginata Assegai Ahlspiess Boar spear Bohemian earspoon Brandistock Dory Fauchard...

primordial land-mass, Onogoro-shima, from the sea. It is often represented as a naginata. According to the Kojiki, Shinto's genesis gods Izanagi and Izanami were...

There are many similar polearms such as the war scythe, the Japanese naginata, the Chinese guandao (yanyuedao), the Korean woldo, and the Russian sovnya...

have sufficient training in bows increased. Until then, they mainly used naginata with a long handle, but they also started to use ōdachi. The Kamakura period...

halberd (naginata). As the army outnumbered them completely, it was a battle of strategy and evasion; eventually the blade of Ryushin's Naginata was cut...

died during the Boshin War. During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants...

had a heavy blade attached to a pole in a similar fashion to a voulge Naginata, a Japanese weapon that had a 30-to-60-centimetre-long (12 to 24 in) blade...

river. Tajima is said to have stood upon the bridge and, spinning his naginata, deflected many if not most of the arrows that came his way. According...

weapons including the yari (spear) and naginata (glaive) were commonly used by the samurai. The yari displaced the naginata from the battlefield as personal...

to: Tendo-ryu bujutsu, a bujutsu koryu specializing in the use of the naginata Tendo-ryu Aikido, an aikido style founded by Kenji Shimizu The style of...

samurai to cross. The warrior monks stood their ground with bow and arrow, naginata, sword and dagger, but were ultimately defeated. Following his victory...

modernized form (gendai budō) called the "way of naginata" (naginata-dō) or "new naginata" (atarashii naginata), in which competitions are also held. However...

It is hinted that he has a crush on Okuni and also has a rivalry with Naginata. His weapon is a green plastic ruler. He is also clumsy as shown in the...

other monks, Benkei was likely[citation needed] trained in the use of the naginata, the half-moon spear. At the age of seventeen, Benkei was said to have...

bridge he strode across. [...] With his naginata he mows down five of the enemy, but with the sixth the naginata snaps asunder in the midst, and flinging...

weapons like swords, daggers, and axes; polearms like spears, halberds, naginata, and pikes. Both ranged and close weapons: the bayonet fixed to a firearm...

been developed by Kakuzenbo Hoin In’ei, who wanted to improve upon the naginata used by Buddhist priests at the time. Ratti, Oscar; Adele Westbrook (1991)...

Japanese martial art of kendo, with variants used for jūkendō, tankendo, and naginata. During the Edo period (1603-1868) the use of real swords for training...

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Keirin'in (Katsuyori's wife) carrying a naginata in the Battle of Tenmokuzan....

gunpowder Kyujutsu, the art of the bow Naginatajutsu, the art of using a naginata Ninjutsu, Shinobi combat techniques and practices Saijutsu (釵術), fighting...