whats the average blade of tanto?
whats the average blade of tanto?
Average? Don't know that one. But to be considered a tanto it has to have a blade of no more 30 centimeters. From 30 to 60 centimeters it is a shoto (wakizashi), and above 60 it is a daito.
/Samuel
Are those 30cm divisions related to the unit "shaku"?
I.e. up to 1 shaku in length is a tanto, between 1 and 2 shaku in length is a shoto, and everything above 2 shaku is a daito?
Or is shaku only applied to staffs?
Julien Nebbout
"I'm not suffering from insanity.. I enjoy every minute of it."
Sword length is usually described with the shaku-sun-bu system, especially in Japan -- that's what is meant when someone says he has a 2-5-0 sword (2 shaku, 5 sun, 0 bu).Originally posted by coin
Are those 30cm divisions related to the unit "shaku"?
I.e. up to 1 shaku in length is a tanto, between 1 and 2 shaku in length is a shoto, and everything above 2 shaku is a daito?
Or is shaku only applied to staffs?
1 shaku = 10 sun = c. 30cm
1 sun = 10 bu = c. 3cm
1 bu = c. 3mm
(sorry if I'm repeating stuff you already know!) It's also the increments between different sword lengths offered by most iaito manufacturers, i.e. you can get a 2-4-0 or a 2-4-5, but usually not a 2-4-3 (at that point the difference is negligible).
Nicholas Lauridsen
Nicholas Lauridsen
文武一
Yeats, from "Meditations in Time of Civil War"
- Two heavy trestles, and a board
Where Sato's gift, a changeless sword,
By pen and paper lies,
That it may moralise
My days out of their aimlessness.
To confuse everyone. I have a 1.3 tanto My sword smith describes it as a wakizashi blade in a tanto mount. It qualifies? Well its registered.
Hyakutake Colin
P.s. Dont forget RIN
Shaku, Sun, Bu, Rin
What a cliff hanger.
But what is a Rin? .. I mean, there could be no possible use of a measurement 1/10 of a Bu regarding weapons, could there?
A quick google search gave me the answer though. It is indeed one tenth of a Bu.
I'm curious to see a case where it's used..
Last edited by coin; 6th May 2003 at 00:55.
Julien Nebbout
"I'm not suffering from insanity.. I enjoy every minute of it."