Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Katana

Katana

Katana (刀) is a Japanese long sword (Daito,大刀), although in Japanese it self refers to all types of swords. Katana is kunyomi (Japanese title) of the form of kanji刀; while onyomi (called pinyin) is the kanji characters to. He was referring to the sword one eye, a special curved traditionally used by Japanese samurai.
Katana is usually paired with the wakizashi or shoto, but it looks like is made shorter, both used aleh warrior class members.