Samurai Swords may refer to: Katana, the traditional sword of the samurai Shogun (1986 board game), a board game renamed as Samurai Swords in 1995 (and...
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword is a 2009 American animated comedy mystery martial arts film, as well as the thirteenth entry in a series of direct-to-video...
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Sword of the Samurai may refer to: Sword of the Samurai (computer game), a 1989 American MS-DOS video game Sword of the Samurai (gamebook), a 1986 roleplaying...
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Katana (redirect from Samurai sword)
and samurai, or as offerings to the kami enshrined in Shinto shrines, and symbols of authority and spirituality of samurai. The production of swords in...
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all sword carrying men as samurai, regardless of rank. In modern usage, bushi is often used as a synonym for samurai. The definition of "samurai" varies...
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Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as the Yayoi...
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also commonly spelled "chambara", meaning "sword fighting" films, denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent...
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Sword of the Samurai is an action and strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse in 1989 for the DOS platform. It features role-playing...
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Samurai Complete Edition) was released in Japan in 2003. It was based on the Western versions of the game, and as such, it included the non-sword weapons...
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Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu) that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored...
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The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛, Tasogare Seibei, lit. "Twilight Seibei") is a 2002 Japanese historical drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada...
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husband's samurai armor, and Katsumoto presents him with a newly-forged samurai sword engraved with an inscription dubbing Algren "the warrior in which the old...
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Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword is an action-adventure game developed by Grounding Inc. and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS's eShop. The game...
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an unspeakable evil. But a foolish samurai warrior wielding a magic sword stepped forth to oppose me. Before the final blow was struck, I tore open a...
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Sword of the Samurai is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Alan Langford and originally published...
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Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay...
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childhood fascination with samurai culture and the bushido code,: 42:56 as well as a recurring dream in which he wielded a samurai sword and wandered a post-apocalyptic...
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Wakizashi (category Samurai swords)
The wakizashi (Japanese: 脇差, 'side inserted sword') is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) worn by the samurai in feudal Japan. Its...
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Way of the Samurai 4 (侍道4, Samurai Dou 4) is a video game developed by Acquire and published by Spike for the PlayStation 3. It was released in Japan...
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and the Communist Party. Subsequent books include The Sword of the Samurai Cat, Samurai Cat Goes to the Movies and Samurai Cat Goes to Hell. In the last...
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territories. The TV and film rights have been acquired by Coolabi. Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior (2008) Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword (2009) Young...
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Tachi (category Samurai swords)
A tachi (太刀) is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword (nihonto) worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Tachi and uchigatana generally...
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'dull-edged sword'; gatana is rendaku of katana) is a short comedic jidaigeki about a dim-witted self-appointed samurai. He gets fooled and buys a dull sword from...
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Kengo (redirect from Kengo: Legend of the 9)
14, 2003 under the title Sword of the Samurai. It features a character creation feature and over 100 detailed swords to choose from. Published by Ubisoft...
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Way of the Samurai 2 (侍道2, Samurai Dou 2) is a PlayStation 2 (PS2) action-adventure game released in 2003. It was re-released on PlayStation Portable in...
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The Big Mouth (uncredited, 1967) and Which Way to the Front? (1970). Takei narrated the documentary The Japanese Sword as the Soul of the Samurai (1969)...
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Losaro; The Outer Limits as Gaby Christian; The Invaders as Lisa; Hawaiian Eye in three episodes: "The Koa Man" as Susan Chang, "Sword of the Samurai" as...
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Guntō (redirect from Type 98 Military Sword)
1872. During the Meiji period, the samurai class was gradually disbanded, and the Haitōrei Edict in 1876 forbade the carrying of swords in public except...
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Japanese folklore. At the same time, Hellboy is tricked into smashing the sword against the samurai's stone form, which destroys the sword, releases Thunder...
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Daishō (category Samurai swords)
The daishō (大小, daishō)—"large and small"—is a Japanese term for a matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords (nihonto) worn by the samurai class...
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