![]() The Ninja Cafe is an “entertainment cafe” where customers can dress up in ninja costumes and take part in “ninja training” that involves trying out shuriken, blowguns, and sword moves. The edible sword will add even more excitement for visitors, and because it’s made with a hard ice cream that doesn’t melt easily, you’ll have plenty of time to make your way down the blade without making a mess. ▼ That means this ice cream is roughly the same length as a real Ninjato. Ninjato differ from samurai swords in that they’re single-edged instead of double-edged, and considerably shorter, measuring around 40 centimetres in length rather than around 70 centimetres. Either way, it’s being billed as “Japan’s longest ice cream” (“日本一長いアイス”/”Nihonichi Nagai Aisu”), and it’s a whopping 45 centimetres (17.7 inches) long.Ĭreated by Ninja Cafe Takayama in Gifu Prefecture, where it’s soon to be sold, the new ice cream is designed to look like a Ninjato (ninja sword). “Ice” in Japan is the word used for ice cream, but in this case it looks to be more like an ice pop or an “ice candy” as they’re known in Japanese. This summer, we’ll be adding a new weapon to that arsenal: “ Ninjato Ice“. Japanese summers can be brutally hot, so it always helps to have an arsenal of goods to protect ourselves from the heat. The sword is hung from a belt with the cutting edge facing up.Slay the heat with a new ice cream from a Japanese ninja cafe. KATANA KOSHIRAE - Wearing method of swords. The sword is hung from a belt with the cutting edge facing down. TACHI KOSHIRAE - Wearing method of swords. Consisted of about 2 million or 3% of total population. SAMURAI - A class of people that existed in old Japan. Katanas produced after this period are called SHIN-KATANA.ĭuring 1868 to 1926 (in the beginning of SHOWA era), SHIN-SHINTOUs were made, and SHOWA-KATANs with machine-made blade followed. Those swords made during MOMOYAMA period to KEICHO-NENKAN, 1596 to 1614, are known as KOTOU or FURUI KATANA. This caused the loss of many good swards with production dates and signatures. At the end of Sengoku period, many tachis were cut shorter, and the concept of "tachi wearing" (TACHI KOSHIRAE) changed into "katana wearing"(KATANA KOSHIRAE). Those swords produced from the 14th century to Sengoku period were heavy and some were longer than 3 ft. Tachi developed into KATANA during the middle of the 10th century, because the Japanese calvery required weapons fit for surprse attacks.ĭuring the year 1190 to 1337 (Kamakura period), blacksmith techniques for sward making reached its peak, and many of the swards designated as national treasures were made during this period.ĭuring the year 1337 to 1570 (Muromachi period), long and heavy swards fit for one on one fights were in demand by many samurai warriors. Ken or the strait RYO-TO-KEN were made during the 7th to the 8th period as can be seen at HO-BUTSU-DEN in Nara city. ![]() Those with a sigle blade is generally called TACHI.įrom the 3rd to the 8th century, Chinease and Korean sword craftsmen came over to Japan. The ones with blades on both sides are known as KEN or TSURUGI. The oldest sward is called JO-KO-GATANA which means "the sward of an ancestor". The first metal sward was discovered from a grave in Japan. History of Japanese swords goes back 2,000 years. You should not breath on the blade or expose the sword in strong light. When testing a sword, you hold a piece of soft paper or cloth in one hand, take out the sward completely from the SAYA, and place the blade upward. ![]() Old swaords are items that are collected by collectors that are capable of identifying its quality. They were used for decorative purposes, and the ones with pointed shape was used with a ceremonial belt (women samurai's belt) in a formal occasion. One of the most popular ones among collecters in Japan are KAI-KENs. They were used when committing suicide by cutting one's own stomack or in SEPPUKU. WAKI-SASHI and TAN-PEN that are also in demand are the ones that appearred later on. Single bladed kogatanas are also often considered as a gift item. Katanas which are curved, medium in length, and bladed on sigle side, are the ones that are under the most demand. O-GATANA (longer sward) and KOGATANA(shorter sward) were limited in their length to under 2 ft. In 1614, after the early TOKUGAWA period, the Tokugawa Shogunate regulated wearing of katanas, and samurai warriors began carrying two swards of different size. To wear a katana was considered to be one of the previlages that indicated one's class. SAMURAI KATANA was a single bladed arm which samurai warriors wore on their waist. ![]()
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