Samurai police weapons

thumb|upright=1.5|A jitte with a sword-type case Commons:Category:Koshirae|(koshirae) A is a blunt melee weapon that was used by police in Edo-period Japan (1603–1868). In English-language sources, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled jutte, such as in Ikkaku-ryū juttejutsu.

thumb|300px| Weapons for capturing suspected criminals, from left to right: a tsukubō, a [[sodegarami, and a sasumata]] The is a polearm, a "man catcher", used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan.

thumb|300px| Weapons for capturing suspected criminals: on the left tsukubō, in the middle sodegarami, and on the right [[sasumata]] The is a polearm that was used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan.

The (push pole) was a polearm used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan.

thumb|250px|Line drawing of a metsubushi or gantsubushi are a variety of implements and techniques that were used in feudal Japan by samurai police and other individuals to temporarily or permanently blind or disorient an opponent.