I learned recently that Japanese katana often had a built in pocket knife equivalent. Sadly I can't recall the name they use for them, anyone know the name of these little guys?
Need to do some research on them.
Katana knife
I learned recently that Japanese katana often had a built in pocket knife equivalent. Sadly I can't recall the name they use for them, anyone know the name of these little guys?
Need to do some research on them.
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=what+is+a+katana+knife+called
Yeah that is not what I am looking for and why I asked.
Search is just giving me the basic stuff.
What I am looking for is the little almost pin knife sized dlade that sits in the same sythe as the katana.
I mean yeah it's one of the things that sounds like you could just search it, but the terminology it tricky and you always get the short sowrds not the life I am asking about.
Still thanks.
>What I am looking for is the little almost pin knife sized dlade that sits in the same sythe as the katana
Where did you first hear/see that? Maybe rhat will help narrow it down? Are you sure it wasnt just some gimmick blade from an anime or movie?
No.
It was a historic YouTube channel from a while back. They explained it's wearing and how it fit in the sythe. More like a utility knife than anything, but they do seem to not be common enough that /k/ knew it first try.
It's not a cool anime thing lol more like a fug I need to cut some string and don't want to draw my sword thing.
kozuka, you already had your answer above. it was a small utility knife fitted into the scabbard. it was quite common.
As far as when I looked at the thread they came in at the same time.
Thanks for the help still.
I just thinks it's cool they had a utility knife and wanted to do some research on it.
Cheers.
it's rarely included in the reproductions, but almost all the exquisite originals had them, it's pretty cool indeed.
Tanto
Sadly no.
Smaller than a tanto, literally pin knife small.
Fug I know it's a thing it's just a matter of the name.
Still thank you.
Your thinking of a kozuka
https://www.kultofathena.com/product/musha-zetsurin-katana-with-hidden-kozuka-blade-dark-red-saya-scabbard/
That's it!!
Thank you. I'll delete the thread in a min but I am very grateful for your help.
>I'll delete the thread in a min but I am very grateful for your help.
leave it up, someone else might find it interesting. It'll die naturally when it stops getting bumped.
It's called a Jackie Chan knife
You funny.
I remember I saw one in Shogun Assassin, the scene in the hold of the ship, one of the Masters of Death throws it and takes one layer of skin off a guy's nose, then Lone Wolf throws it back into the killer's scabbard. It goes through the tsuba, IIRC.
Wikipedia says it's called a kogatana, and the "kozuka" is just a decorative handle mounting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sword_mountings
These fuckers?
Looks cool
That's the one.