Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 42.—.Japanese swords {kulinia) and Fig. 43. —Japanese spear-head, lielmet-breaker {Itachiwan-,and dagger (tanto). Kozuka. Small knife canied at one side of the Small skewer, sometimes double, at one side of thescabbard. Kuri Kuta. Cleat. Koir/uchi. Metal top of a dagger without a guard. Tsnba. The guard. Sagco. Cord attached to the cleat. 54 ASIA Yakibri. The hardened edge of a blade. Swords when placed in a stand should have the edge upwardsand the hilt to the right. Spears. General Xamc—Yari. The earliest spears
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . Fig. 42.—.Japanese swords {kulinia) and Fig. 43. —Japanese spear-head, lielmet-breaker {Itachiwan-,and dagger (tanto). Kozuka. Small knife canied at one side of the Small skewer, sometimes double, at one side of thescabbard. Kuri Kuta. Cleat. Koir/uchi. Metal top of a dagger without a guard. Tsnba. The guard. Sagco. Cord attached to the cleat. 54 ASIA Yakibri. The hardened edge of a blade. Swords when placed in a stand should have the edge upwardsand the hilt to the right. Spears. General Xamc—Yari. The earliest spears are contemporaneous Avith the straightsword. They were of two shapes only, one with a bladeresembling a long two-edged sword, the other with a socketedhead having a triangular blade. In mediaeval and later timestheir shapes are innumerable ; they may, however, be divided intothree great groups :— 1. Naginaia and nagamali class. Blades more or less curved. 2. Su yari and omiijari. Blades straight. 3. Magari yari. Blade in form of a cross with ui)curved arms. Armour. The earliest specimens
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