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Yoroidōshi
The "armor piercer"〔Japan by Pierre Landy; Nagel Publishers p.68〕〔Selected masterpieces of Asian art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 1992 p.97〕 or "mail piercer"〔Report of the proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia 1891 p.28〕 were one of the traditionally made Japanese swords () that were worn by the samurai class as a weapon in feudal Japan.
==Description==
The ''yoroidōshi'' is an extra thick tantō, a long knife, which appeared in the Sengoku period (''late Muromachi'').〔(''The Japanese sword'', Kanzan Satō, Kodansha International, 1983 P.30 )〕 The ''yoroidōshi'' was made for piercing armour〔Secrets of the samurai: a survey of the martial arts of feudal Japan Oscar Ratti, Adele Westbrook p.260〕 and for stabbing while grappling in close quarters. The weapon ranged in size from 20 cm to 22 cm, but some examples could be under 15 cm, with a "tapering ''mihaba'', ''iori-mune'', thick ''kasane'' at the bottom, and thin ''kasane'' at the top and occasionally ''moroha-zukuri'' construction".〔(''The connoisseur's book of Japanese swords'', Author Kōkan Nagayama, Publisher Kodansha International, 1998, ISBN 4-7700-2071-6, ISBN 978-4-7700-2071-0 P.30 )〕 The ''motogasane'' (blade thickness) at the ''hamachi'' (the notch at the beginning of the cutting edge) can be up to a half-inch thick, which is characteristic of the ''yoroidōshi''. The extra thickness at the spine of the blade distinguishes the ''yoroidōshi'' from a standard tantō blade.
''Yoroidōshi'' were worn inside the belt on the back or on the right side〔Japan by Pierre Landy; Nagel Publishers p.68〕 with the hilt toward the front and the edge upward. Due to being worn on the right, the blade would have been drawn using the left hand, giving rise to the alternate name of ,〔1988, ''国語大辞典（新装版） ''(Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan〕 or "horse-hand (i.e. rein-hand, i.e. left-hand) blade".
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