When was the kusarigama invented

All of its parts are weapons in their own right. The chain rope in the practice weapon can bind or choke. The fundo weight at the end--deer skin in the practice weapon would have been an iron weight that could break or crush when thrown at speed.

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Select product options to display the total price. Show details The Koyketsu-Shoge is an identical weapon except that the scythe Kama is replaced with a bilhook Koyketsu.

The Shoge ring could be used instead of the Fundo weight. The Shoge was sharp and designed to cut from a distance. However this weapon was specifically used as a Grappling Hook for climbing trees and walls; both ends of the weapon can hook onto branches or roofs, and the Shoge ring can slide onto branches. Many fictionalized depictions of the kusarigama show the sickle end being swung around by the chain, although in all likelihood, the sickle would bounce off of its target without inflicting much, if any, damage.

The chain may have been able to be used for defence. The other is that the ninja throws either sickle like a weight and after that he attacks with the finishing blow with the other sickle. Although a Kusarigama of this type must have had a stronger destructive power than the usual one, it demanded excellent skills to utilize this weapon. It is thought that the inventor of Kusarigama is not a ninja and that it spontaneously appeared as a weapon from the people who were prohibited to have a Samurai-Sword with them as a self-defence implement.

One thing we know is that kusarigama was not used in war because kusarigama can be used to deal with only one or at most two opponents. Almost of all Kusarigamas which are left at present were casted by ordinary blacksmiths, not by Sword-craftsmen.

This fact means that Kusarigama was not a main weapon for Ninjas. Further to this, the users of Kusarigama were not necessarily only ninjas, but also samurai who also learned how to use Kusarigama.

The way of using Kusarigama was systematized into one of the Japanese martial arts.