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has the chain "attached at the base of the blade" and it is much more powerful than the first type. The second type allows the wielder to use quick attacks and it can continue to be used if the weapon is deflected. It only takes one hand to operate the second type and the other hand can be used for
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Attacking with the weapon usually entailed swinging the weighted chain in a large circle over one's head, and then whipping it forward to entangle an opponent's spear, sword, or other weapon, or immobilizing their arms or legs. This allows the kusarigama user to easily rush forward and strike with
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being used as a battlefield weapon in mass combat. Swinging its long chain could endanger allies and it would be ineffective against armor. The weapon is at its most useful when wielded against an opponent who attacks with a sword; it is not as useful against a longer weapon such as a spear, a
319:. The farmer used the sickle with a chain attachment to defeat the warrior. According to Amdur, trapping an opponent with the chain is not effective, and a farmer's sickle would be an awkward weapon. He also states that there is no evidence for peasant use of the 357:(school), with the weapon being held in either hand and its chain and weight being held in the other hand to be swung at the other person. Depending on how easy it is to see the weapon's weight move, "it can be deflected or blocked". One hit with the 366:
another form of combat. The third type "has a straight blade, hafted at right angles, with a handguard set at the blade side". The chain is attached to the weapon's base and it is controlled with both hands, similar to the first type of
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has also been used as a "plaything for warriors with time on their hands, and a means of attracting rural students who wished to do something unique in their local festivals".
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is typically not able to stop someone from attacking and the weight needs to be "reeled in" by the wielder again so that a second attack can be made. The second type of
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and killed. Yamada did not have enough room in the bamboo grove to swing around the chain of his
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could also be used as a weapon and according to Nawa, the tool might have been combined with a
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stated, "Maybe, the most unusual Japanese martial art is that which employs the
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Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts
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Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture
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Secrets of the Samurai; A Survey of the Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
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Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan
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or that it was derived from a farmer's tool. However,
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Index

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Japanese
鎖鎌
chain
sickle
weapon
kama
Japanese
kusari-fundo
Muromachi period
kusarigamajutsu
Nawa Yumio
ja:鳶口
naginata
bō
Edo period
Muromachi period
Tokugawa shogunate
Yamada Shinryukan
bamboo
Araki Mataemon
ninja
Samurai women
kenjutsu
jūjutsu
naginatajutsu
kusarigamajutsu
kama
Kusari-fundo
raden

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