Definitions
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- noun A Japanese
short sword , often paired with thekatana (daitou) in thedaisho . It is forged in the same way as a katana, but it was much shorter and rarely used in real combat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a ninja, he would use a short-sword called a wakizashi for most missions, but there was nothing to compare to fighting with the full-length sword.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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As a ninja, he would use a short-sword called a wakizashi for most missions, but there was nothing to compare to fighting with the full-length sword.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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As a ninja, he would use a short-sword called a wakizashi for most missions, but there was nothing to compare to fighting with the full-length sword.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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Fighting in close or confined quarters required shorter swords, such as the sailor's cutlass and the Japanese wakizashi, which is similar in size to the Hisshou.
WN.com - Articles related to Kyoto may push factories to pollute more-UN report 2010
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Japanese wakizashi, which is similar in size to the Hisshou.
WN.com - Articles related to Kyoto may push factories to pollute more-UN report 2010
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Fighting in close or confined quarters required shorter swords, such as the sailor's cutlass and the Japanese wakizashi, which is similar in size to the Hisshou.
WN.com - Articles related to Taiwan outlying islands to lead emissions cut effort 2010
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Japanese wakizashi, which is similar in size to the Hisshou.
WN.com - Articles related to Taiwan outlying islands to lead emissions cut effort 2010
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"Thorin and Durin ate the cake on a recon into Monterey," I say, stalling for time while I try to fetch the wakizashi I stashed under the bathroom sink.
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I've put down the wakizashi and come out to face Cinderella open handed.
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She came at him then, and as she brought her sword round in an arc, she whipped a smaller wakizashi from her kimono with her other hand, and then she was attacking furiously, with both blades—no longer a girl but an infernal device, whirling sharp and fast.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word wakizashi
"Of course the Carbonite stilettos pierced it as if it were cork board, but this spoiled his aim long enough for me to whip my wakizashi out from between my shoulder blades and swing at his head."
"Slashdot Interview" by Neal Stephenson, p 28 of Some Remarks
August 29, 2013