{"id":38165,"date":"2023-04-13T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e7%9f%ad%e5%88%80"},"modified":"2023-04-13T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T09:17:48","slug":"%e7%9f%ad%e5%88%80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e7%9f%ad%e5%88%80","title":{"rendered":"short sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/shop\/?&#038;shop_category%5B%5D=%E6%AD%A6%E5%85%B7\">armour<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>short sword<span class=\"ruby\">(Tantou)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e5%88%80\">Japanese sword<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  A general term for short swords with little or no warp and less than 1 shaku (about 30 cm) in length. During the Kamakura to Muromachi periods, swords were used in kumiai (fighting with the enemy) and for seizing the enemy&#8217;s head. After the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600), it is said that its use on the battlefield decreased, but since the Edo period (1603-1867), it has been valued as a sword for self-defense that even women and children could easily handle. It is also called &#8220;futokoro ga nana&#8221; or &#8220;koshi-gatana&#8221; (meaning &#8220;waist sword&#8221;) because it was carried at the waist with the blade facing upward. It is also called koshigatana (\u8170\u5200) or koshirae (\u3053\u3057\u3089\u3048). The name &#8220;koshirae&#8221; also refers to the sword&#8217;s exterior, such as the scabbard and handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"armour short sword(Tantou) Japanese sword A general term for short swords with little or no warp and less than 1 shaku (about 30 cm) in length. During the Kamakura to Muromachi periods, swords were used in kumiai (fighting with the enemy) and for seizing the enemy&#8217;s head. After the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600), it is said that its use on the battlefield decreased, but since the Edo period (1603-1867), it has been valued as a sword for self-defense that even women and children could easily handle. It is also called &#8220;futokoro ga nana&#8221; or &#8220;koshi-gatana&#8221; (meaning &#8220;waist sword&#8221;) because it was carried at the waist with the blade facing upward. It [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020,4915],"tags":[4425,4917,4931],"area":[],"class_list":["post-38165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column-en","category-traditional-culture-dictionary-by-agatajapan-en","tag-nihonto-en","tag-agatajapan-traditional-culture-en","tag-bugu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38165"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}