Kaiken

kaiken (懐剣) merupakan istilah modern dari kwaiken;^[1] atau futokoro-gatana adalah belati yang berbilah tunggal atau ganda dengan panjang 8-10 inci dengan tanpa alat kelengkapan, sebelumnya digunakan oleh pria dan wanita dari kelas samurai di Jepang.^[2] Ini berguna untuk di dalam ruangan pada pertahanan diripada katana panjang dan wakizashi. Para perempuan membawa kaiken di dalam kimono baik di dalam saku seperti lipatan (futukoro) atau di lengan (tamoto) untuk membela diri dan untuk ritual bunuh diri dengan memotong pembuluh darah di sisi kiri leher.^[3]^[4]^[5] Ketika seorang wanita samurai menikah, ia diharapkan untuk membawa Kaiken ketika dia pergi ke rumah suaminya untuk hidup bersama.^[6]

Referensi

↑ The Japanese Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, Authors Garland Hampton Cannon, Nicholas W. Warren, Publisher Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-447-03764-4, ISBN 978-3-447-03764-8 P.65
↑ A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: In All Countries and in All Times, Author George Cameron Stone, Publisher Courier Dover Publications, 1999, ISBN 0-486-40726-8, ISBN 978-0-486-40726-5 P.405
↑ Samurai: The Weapons and Spirit of the Japanese Warrior, Clive Sinclaire, Globe Pequot, Nov 1, 2004 P.88^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
↑ The complete encyclopedia of arms & weapons: the most comprehensive reference work ever published on arms and armor, Claude Blair, Publisher Bonanza Books, 1986, ISBN 0-517-48776-4, ISBN 978-0-517-48776-1 P.306
↑ The sword book in Honchō gunkikō and The book of Samé, Kō hi sei gi of Inaba Tsūriō, Authors Hakuseki Arai, Tsūryū Inaba, Publisher C. E. Tuttle, 1963 P.42
↑ Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts, Author Serge Mol, Publisher Kodansha International, 2003, ISBN 4-7700-2941-1, ISBN 978-4-7700-2941-6 P.27

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