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...

katana (top), wakizashi (bottom), in the form of a daishō (matched set). Edo period, 19th century. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Wakizashi mounting decorated...

daitō + shōtō = daishō. A daishō is typically depicted as a katana and wakizashi (or a tantō) mounted in matching koshirae, but originally the daishō was...

commonly known types of Japanese swords are the uchigatana, tachi, ōdachi, wakizashi, and tantō. In modern times the most commonly known type of Japanese sword...

forging traditionally made bladed weapons (nihonto) including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and...

Otoya Yamaguchi charged onto the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi, a type of traditional short sword. Yamaguchi committed suicide while...

particular need for the wakizashi, and suggests that the wakizashi may have become more popular than the tantō due to the wakizashi being more suited for...

with a length of less than 60 cm (24 in). They are often confused with wakizashi, due to their length and handling techniques. However, their construction...

shape of a katana, but is sometimes shaped like other swords, such as the wakizashi and tantō. Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work...

his death, he had himself raised up. He had his belt tightened and his wakizashi put in it. He seated himself with one knee vertically raised, holding...

Takuzo Onoe, receives a notice from Kaito Kid. The plan was to steal two wakizashi swords belonging to Toshizo Hijikata, which were stored in a zaibatsu...

who could continue to wear daisho until 1683. Many would keep wearing wakizashi on a daily basis after then. After the middle of the 18th century, they...

12 October 1960. Yamaguchi rushed the stage and stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi-like short sword while Asanuma was participating in a televised election...

down the spare oar of the boat in which he arrived at the duel with his wakizashi. Musashi came late on purpose in order to psychologically unnerve his...

Anyone who was at the receiving end had the right to defend themselves by wakizashi, a situation most common in the case of a higher samurai exercising the...

relations, making him a polarizing figure. Asanuma was assassinated with a wakizashi, a traditional short sword, by far-right ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi...

seating Street furniture Sword furniture – on Japanese swords (katana, wakizashi, tantō) all parts save the blade are referred to as "furniture". In firearms...

invents the style of simultaneously wielding both the katana and the wakizashi, something unheard of at that time in Japanese history. Chance, as well...

(1603–1867), the hilts of nagamaki were often cut off and made into katana or wakizashi (short sword). This practice of cutting off the hilt of a ōdachi or tachi...

(1603–1867), the hilts of naginata were often cut off and made into katana or wakizashi (short sword). This practice of cutting off the hilt of an ōdachi, tachi...

(dagger) Katana Kodachi Nagamaki Ninjatō Ōdachi Shikomizue Tachi Tantō Wakizashi Yoroi-dōshi Utak Yatagan Double-edged sword, a class of swords with two...

Japanese, used especially when referring to the tang of the katana or the wakizashi. A full tang extends the full length of the grip-portion of a handle,...

katana and shorter swords in pairs. These short swords were wakizashi and tantō, and wakizashi were mainly selected. This set of two is called a daishō....

Musashi. Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū is mainly known for the two-sword—katana and wakizashi—kenjutsu techniques Musashi called Niten Ichi (二天一, "two heavens as one")...

("suriage"). For this reason, his only existing works are katana, tantō, and wakizashi. No exact dates are known for Masamune's life. It is generally agreed...

containing taisho Daishō (大小), paired Japanese swords of usually a katana and wakizashi Taishou, China's commaderial office This disambiguation page lists articles...

Kaikenjutsu) Takamura-ha Shindo Yoshin-ryu Tendō-ryū Kaiken (dagger) Wakizashi Mol, S. (2003). Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics...

Wakizashi Ishida Sadamune. Important Cultural Property....

designs demonstrated by alleged replicas may be based on the design of wakizashi or chokutō swords or the swords associated with ashigaru—common infantrymen...

has two edges, one on each side of its blade, unlike the tachi, katana, wakizashi, or odachi, which have only one cutting edge, on one of the two sides...