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17 TH CENTURY SAMURAI HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE NOT SWORD C 1700
17 TH CENTURY SAMURAI HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE NOT SWORD C 1700
PRESERVING HISTORY, 17 TH or 18TH CENTURY JAPANESE HELMET SMASHER ARMOR PIERCING BATTLE AXE, WARPICK, SIMILAR TO THE EUROPEAN WAR HAMMER, IT HAS AN OLD JAPANESE MUSEUM LABEL, FROM THE IMPORTANT MUSEUM LIKE COLLECTION OF FREDERICK COLUZZI. THIS WAS BROUGHT BACK BY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER DURING WAR WAR II. ONE THE SAMURAI'S PREFFERED FIGHTING WEAPONS. THIS ONE IS AN EARLY ONE DATING FROM AROUND 1700. IT HAD ITS PLACE IN MARTIAL ARTS AND IT IS A SAMURAI FORGOTTEN WEAPON, ALSO USED BY FIREFIGHTERS TO KNOCK DOWN AND CLIME WALLS.
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Kama (é) or the Tobiguchi (鳶å£) although they share some similar features; the Kama has a blade rather than a spike, and the Tobiguchi, besides being also a tool that could be "weaponized", has a shorter beak and a top spike.
However, the "boundaries" in the nomenclature are rather slim; sometimes, a Tobiguchi could and is considered a warpick, and in some example of the famous Kusari-gama, there is a beak instead of a blade which should make the weapon a Kusari-tsuruhashi but luckily nobody use such names to make things even harder in the world of arms and armor collectors.
Sometimes, a similar beak was fitted to some Yari, making the weapon highly effective in dealing against armor.
Sometimes, a similar beak was fitted to some Yari, making the weapon highly effective in dealing against armor.
On the left the warpick, in this case called Motayu (è»å¼)); from "æ¦å¨çå"
In fact, nobody knew its original name; this is what led some collectors of Tobiguchi to call this weapon a "foreign head-breaker" (Nanban hachiwari), since it resembled an European warhammer. However, this weapon existed before the contact with the European, so there is nothing "nanban" in this warpick.
Probably it was a derivative of the everyday pickax used by the Japanese (nowadays the name Tsuruhashi means "pickax"); just like the Kama or the Tobiguchi, from ordinary tools they were "weaponized" to be used effectively on the battlefield.
This weapon its highly effective in dealing with any type of armor, and is capable of overcoming even the highest form of protections.
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