RE: favorite weapons
January 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2012 at 4:44 pm by Violet.)
(January 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: It's name is "Guan-do", a Chinese polearm.
Nub don't know that it is 3 things at once. Here
Wikipedia Wrote:A naginata consists of a wooden shaft with a curved blade on the end; it is similar to the Chinese Guan Dao or European glaive. Usually it also had a sword-like hand guard (tsuba) between the blade and shaft. The 30 cm to 60 cm long naginata blade is forged in the same manner as traditional Japanese swords. The blade has a long tang (nakago) which is inserted in the shaft (nagaye or ebu), the blade is removable and is secured by means of a wood peg (mekugi) that passes though a hole (mekugi-ana) in both the nakago and the nagaye (ebu). The nagaye (ebu) ranges from 120 cm to 240 cm in length and is oval shaped. The area of the nagaye (ebu) were the naginata nakago sits is the tachiuchi or tachiuke. The tachiuchi (tachiuke) would be re-enforced with metal rings (naginata dogane or semegane), and or metal sleeves (sakawa) and wrapped with cord (san-dan maki), the end of the nagaye (ebu) had a heavy metal end cap (ishizuki or hirumaki). When not in use the naginata blade would be covered with a wooden sheath (saya).[1]
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naginata
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