Definitions

1. A wakizashi was used as a samurai 's weapon when the Katana was unavailable.
2. A wakizashi is between one and two shaku in length, and a tanto is less than one shaku.
3. Wakizashi is a samurai 'name card'.
4. Wakizashi is a sharp light weight short sword.
5. A wakizashi was decorated rather than a katana because it wasn't used as much as a katana, but still carried everywhere.

Albeit Slightly

1. In style it looks like a Wakizashi, albeit slightly longer and with a straighter blade.

Ritual Suicide

1. The wakizashi could also be used to behead an enemy or for ritual suicide.

Long-Sword

1. The long-sword is generally stored above the wakizashi, curving upwards.

Close-Combat Weapon

1. The wakizashi made an effective main-gauche or close-combat weapon.

Ninja-Ken

1. Ninja-ken are shorter than a katana but longer than a wakizashi. (Web site)

Katana Sword

1. The two swords always come together, where wakizashi completed the katana sword.

Shorter Person

1. Chisa-katana were not common weapons since usually a katana was made for a shorter person or a wakizashi for a larger person.
2. Chiisakatana were not common weapons since usually a katana was made for a taller person or a wakizashi for a shorter person.

Japanese Short Sword

1. The Japanese short sword, or wakizashi Bastard and hand-and-a-half swords.

Shaku

1. However, a chisa-katana is longer than the wakizashi, which was between one and two shaku in length.

Beginning

1. Iaijutsu: Beginning at 5th level, a samurai gains Quick Draw as a bonus feat, though it applies only to use of his katana or wakizashi (or both).

Forms

1. Wakizashi were also not simply a 'scaled down' katana, they were often forged in hira-zukuri or other such forms, which were very rare on katana.

Larger

1. Ninja-ken are smaller than katana but larger than wakizashi.

Set

1. The katana and the wakizashi constitute a set called daishō, which is translated as "large and small".

Size

1. The wakizashi has undergone the same folding technique that every katana is put through, making it extremely sharp and strong for its size.

Part

1. Those rules and guidelines concerning the katana and its care also apply to the wakizashi when it is part of a matched set.

Pairing

1. During the Muromachi period (1568-1603), the introduction of the pairing of the Katana (the curved sword) and Wakizashi was introduced.

Pair

1. The samurai normally wears the wakizashi and the katana as a pair.

Feet Long

1. Appraise: The wakizashi is about two feet long and a couple of inches wide.

Closer

1. However, his sword is closer to wakizashi length.

Common Practice

1. This reflects the common practice of wearing a wakizashi as the side sword of a katana. (Web site)

Close Combat

1. Both the katana and wakizashi were used for close combat and were primarily cutting weapons.

Seppuku

1. The wakizashi is also used to commit seppuku.

Long Sword

1. The katana was often called the sword or the long sword and the wakizashi the companion sword.

Kodachi

1. For instance, tachi that were shōtō and closer in size to a wakizashi were called kodachi. (Web site)
2. The name " Kodachi " refers to a type of sword, smaller than a katana but larger than a wakizashi.
3. The wakizashi and kodachi are in this category.

Weapons

1. Muramasa (swordmaker) or Katanakaji (swordsmiths) are the craftsmen who forge swords (not only katana but also wakizashi and other edged weapons).

Short Swords

1. Samurai fought with long swords called katana and short swords called wakizashi. (Web site)
2. It is superficially similar to the points on most Japanese long and short swords (katana and wakizashi).

Short Sword

1. Daisho Abilities: The daisho is a set of weapons consisting of a katana (bastard sword) and a wakizashi (short sword).
2. The bushi usually carried two swords: the long sword, or katana, and the short sword, called wakizashi.
3. Wakizashi (shoto, shashi-zoe - short sword) may be used provide they are of commercial manufacture or equivalent and have no known breaks.

Tanto

1. Other common shapes are wakizashi and tanto.
2. Upon going out, samurai ladies may wear wakizashi (optional), and tanto (must-have).

Place

1. The Tanto was a small dagger sometimes worn in place of the Wakizashi in a daisho.
2. It was sometimes worn as the shōtō in place of a wakizashi in a daisho, especially on the battlefield.

Times

1. In earlier periods, and especially during times of civil wars, a tanto was worn in place of a wakizashi.

Ritual

1. In this ritual it was used along with the shortest Japanese sword - Tantō. The wakizashi was thrust into the torso, cutting open vertically.

Similarly

1. The katana was typically paired with the wakizashi or shōtō, a similarly made but shorter sword, both worn by the members of the warrior class.
2. The katana was typically paired with the wakizashi or shoto, a similarly made but shorter sword, both worn by the members of the warrior class. (Web site)

Deception

1. For deception, some ninja would carry a wakizashi in a katana saya to allow faster drawing of the sword and cause the opponent to miscalculate.

Inches

1. The short sword (shoto - wakizashi) was between 12 and 24 inches. (Web site)

Inches Long

1. The Wakizashi, or the shorter companion blade to the Katana, was about 18 inches long.
2. The Wakizashi is a Japanese short sword normally around 16 to 20 inches long.

Shinai

1. For those of non-oriental persona assume that a naginata is equivalent to a glaive, a shinai to a rapier and a wakizashi to a short sword.

Short

1. The longsword used by the Samurai, and worn with the Wakizashi as part of the "Daisho" (long and short). (Web site)
2. The wielder of Do Ryu Sen must make a short run (at least 10 feet) then slash his Katana (or Wakizashi) just above the ground.

Shorter

1. The katana, the longer sword, is used on the battlefield and for most purposes, while the shorter wakizashi is more of a sidearm.
2. In the early Edo period the katana and the shorter wakizashi were the weapons of choice for samurai during their regular duties. (Web site)
3. Often worn as part of a pair of swords with a shorter Wakizashi during the Edo period.

Weapon

1. The weapon was typically worn by members of the buke warrior class paired with the wakizashi, or short sword.
2. Wakizashi A weapon that she sometimes uses in close combat or if she loses Hiraikotsu, but she prefers her main weapon.

Pistol

1. However, the wakizashi would be on his person at all times, and therefore, it made a sidearm for the samurai, similar to a soldier's use of a pistol.
2. However, the wakizashi would be worn at all times, and therefore, it constituted a side arm for the samurai (similar to a modern soldier's use of a pistol). (Web site)

Dagger

1. In earlier periods, and especially during times of civil war, a tantō (dagger) was worn in place of a wakizashi.

Blade

1. A blade longer than 1 shaku but less than 2 (30–61 cm) is considered a shoto (short sword) and included the wakizashi and kodachi.
2. The blade was normally worn with the Wakizashi, by Samurai only(Dai-sho was the given name when they were together).

Japan

1. The samurai ladies in Japan used halberd or kusarigama, not katana (see picture above), but they also used wakizashi and tanto.
2. Other common shapes are wakizashi and tantō. They are also known as bokutō (木刀, "wooden sword"), which is also the usual term in Japan.

Samurai

1. The wakizashi was usually worn together with the katana by the samurai or swordsmen of feudal Japan. (Web site)
2. The Wakizashi was worn by the Samurai with his Katana or long sword. (Web site)
3. Wakizashi: short sword worn by samurai that accompanied the katana.

Sword

1. A wakizashi sword was an irreplaceable weapon for a samurai.
2. The tanto or the wakizashi sword was used to commit a ritualized suicide. (Web site)
3. The wakizashi sword was much used in the ritual of seppuku (suicide, also referred to as hara-kiri).

Swords

1. Daisho the pairing of katana and wakizashi swords at the waist.
2. When worn together the pair of swords were called daishō, which translates literally as "large and small"; dai or large for katana, and shō for wakizashi.
3. The Japanese Daisho -- a pair of swords, Katana and Wakizashi or Tanto -- symbolised the Samurai's strength and honour.

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