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75 relations: Allotropes of iron, Austenite, Ōdachi, Backsword, Battōjutsu, Choji oil, Close combat, Daimyō, Daishō, Dao (sword), Differential heat treatment, England, Fine (penalty), Government of Japan, Government of the United Kingdom, Guntō, Haitōrei Edict, Hamon (swordsmithing), Hirohito, Historical reenactment, Honour, Horimono, Iaidō, Iaijutsu, Iaitō, Japanese language, Japanese martial arts, Japanese sword, Japanese sword mountings, Japanese swords in fiction, Japanese swordsmithing, Kamakura period, Kanji, Kendo, Kenjutsu, Loanword, Machete, Mandarin Chinese, Martensite, Martial arts, Masamune, Meiji period, Mold, Mongol invasions of Japan, Muromachi period, Ninjutsu, Northern Ireland, Obi (sash), Pearlite, Portuguese language, ..., Pound sterling, Power hammer, Quenching, Regnal name, Samurai, Scotland, Shaku (unit), Shōwa period, Shinken, Sword, Tachi, Tamahagane, Tameshigiri, Tang (tools), Tantō, Tenka-Goken, Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū, Tool steel, Uchigatana, Wakizashi, Wales, World War II, 14th century, 15th century, 16th century. Expand index (25 more) »
Allotropes of iron
Iron represents perhaps the best-known example for allotropy in a metal.
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Austenite
Austenite, also known as gamma-phase iron (γ-Fe), is a metallic, non-magnetic allotrope of iron or a solid solution of iron, with an alloying element.
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Ōdachi
An (large/great sword) or nodachi (野太刀, field sword) was a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (日本刀, nihontō) used by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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Backsword
A backsword is a type of sword characterised by having a single-edged blade and a hilt with a single-handed grip.
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Battōjutsu
("the craft of drawing out the sword") is an old term for iaijutsu.
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Choji oil
Choji oil is a traditional Japanese blade preserving compound.
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Close combat
Close combat means a violent physical confrontation between two or more opponents at short range.
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Daimyō
The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.
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Daishō
The —literally "big-little"—is a Japanese term for a matched pair of traditionally made Japanese swords (''nihonto'') worn by the samurai class in feudal Japan.
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Dao (sword)
Dao (Chinese: 刀; Pinyin: dāo) are single-edged Chinese swords, primarily used for slashing and chopping.
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Differential heat treatment
Differential heat treatment (also called selective heat treatment or local heat treatment) is a technique used during heat treating to harden or soften certain areas of a steel object, creating a difference in hardness between these areas.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Fine (penalty)
A fine or mulct is money that a court of law or other authority decides has to be paid as punishment for a crime or other offence.
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Government of Japan
The government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited and is relegated primarily to ceremonial duties.
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Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom, formally referred to as Her Majesty's Government, is the central government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Guntō
is the name used to describe Japanese swords produced for use by the Japanese army and navy after the end of the samurai era in 1868.
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Haitōrei Edict
The was an edict issued by the Meiji government of Japan on March 28, 1876 which prohibited people, with the exception of former lords (daimyōs), the military and law enforcement officials, from carrying weapons in public.
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Hamon (swordsmithing)
In swordsmithing, (from Japanese, literally "blade pattern") is a visual effect created on the blade by the hardening process.
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Hirohito
was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 25 December 1926, until his death on 7 January 1989.
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Historical reenactment
Historical reenactment (or re-enactment) is an educational or entertainment activity in which people follow a plan to recreate aspects of a historical event or period.
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Honour
Honour (or honor in American English, note) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society, as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a code of conduct, and has various elements such as valor, chivalry, honesty, and compassion.
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Horimono
Horimono (彫り物, 彫物, literally carving, engraving), also known as chōkoku (彫刻, "sculpture"), are the engraved images in the blade of a Japanese sword, which may include katana or tantō blades.
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Iaidō
, abbreviated with, is a Japanese martial art that emphasizes being aware and capable of quickly drawing the sword and responding to a sudden attack.
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Iaijutsu
, is a combative quick-draw sword technique.
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Iaitō
is a modern metal practice sword, without a cutting edge, used primarily for practicing iaido.
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Japanese language
is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
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Japanese martial arts
Japanese martial arts refer to the variety of martial arts native to the country of Japan.
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Japanese sword
A is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan.
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Japanese sword mountings
Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu) that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored.
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Japanese swords in fiction
The katana sword appears in many folk tales as well as legends.
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Japanese swordsmithing
Japanese swordsmithing is the labour-intensive bladesmithing process developed in Japan for forging traditionally made bladed weapons (nihonto) including katana, wakizashi, tantō, yari, naginata, nagamaki, tachi, uchigatana, nodachi, ōdachi, kodachi, and ya (arrow).
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Kamakura period
The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura shogunate, officially established in 1192 in Kamakura by the first shōgun, Minamoto no Yoritomo.
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Kanji
Kanji (漢字) are the adopted logographic Chinese characters that are used in the Japanese writing system.
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Kendo
is a traditional Japanese martial art, which descended from swordsmanship (kenjutsu) and uses bamboo swords (shinai) and protective armour (bōgu).
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Kenjutsu
is the umbrella term for all (koryū) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration.
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Loanword
A loanword (also loan word or loan-word) is a word adopted from one language (the donor language) and incorporated into another language without translation.
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Machete
A machete is a broad blade used either as an implement like an axe, or in combat like a short sword.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Martensite
Martensite, named after the German metallurgist Adolf Martens (1850–1914), most commonly refers to a very hard form of steel crystalline structure, but it can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by diffusionless transformation.
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Martial arts
Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, which are practiced for a number of reasons: as self-defense, military and law enforcement applications, mental and spiritual development; as well as entertainment and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.
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Masamune
, also known as, is widely recognized as Japan's greatest swordsmith.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Mold
A mold or mould (is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae.
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Mongol invasions of Japan
The, which took place in 1274 and 1281, were major military efforts undertaken by Kublai Khan to conquer the Japanese archipelago after the submission of Goryeo (Korea) to vassaldom.
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Muromachi period
The is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
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Ninjutsu
, sometimes used interchangeably with the modern term, is the strategy and tactics of unconventional warfare, guerrilla warfare and espionage purportedly practiced by the shinobi (commonly known outside Japan as ninja).
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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Obi (sash)
is a sash for traditional Japanese dress, keikogi (uniforms for Japanese martial arts), and part of kimono outfits.
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Pearlite
Pearlite is a two-phased, lamellar (or layered) structure composed of alternating layers of ferrite (88 wt%) and cementite (12 wt%) that occurs in some steels and cast irons.
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Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
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Pound sterling
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.
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Power hammer
Power hammers are mechanical forging hammers that use a non-muscular power source to raise the hammer preparatory to striking, and accelerate it onto the work being hammered.
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Quenching
In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, oil or air to obtain certain material properties.
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Regnal name
A regnal name, or reign name, is a name used by some monarchs and popes during their reigns, and used subsequently to refer to them.
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Samurai
were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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Shaku (unit)
The or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger (compare span).
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Shōwa period
The, or Shōwa era, refers to the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shōwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926 until his death on January 7, 1989.
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Shinken
is a Japanese sword that has a live forged blade; the word is used in contrast with bokken and shinai.
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Sword
A sword is a bladed weapon intended for slashing or thrusting that is longer than a knife or dagger.
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Tachi
A was a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (''nihonto'') worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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Tamahagane
Tamahagane (玉鋼) is a type of steel made in the Japanese tradition.
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Tameshigiri
Tameshigiri (試し斬り, 試し切り, 試斬, 試切) is the Japanese art of target test cutting.
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Tang (tools)
A tang or shank is the back portion of the blade component of a tool where it extends into stock material or connects to a handle – as on a knife, sword, spear, arrowhead, chisel, file, coulter, pike, scythe, screwdriver, etc.
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Tantō
A is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (''nihonto'') that were worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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Tenka-Goken
The are a group of five Japanese swords.
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Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū
Written as 天眞正傳香取神道流 prior to 1946 adoption of Tōyō kanji.
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Tool steel
Tool steel refers to a variety of carbon and alloy steels that are particularly well-suited to be made into tools.
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Uchigatana
An is a type of Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan.
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Wakizashi
The is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihontō) worn by the samurai in feudal Japan.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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14th century
As a means of recording the passage of time, the 14th century was the century lasting from January 1, 1301, to December 31, 1400.
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15th century
The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian years 1401 to 1500.
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16th century
The 16th century begins with the Julian year 1501 and ends with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 (depending on the reckoning used; the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana
