naginatajutsu
is the Japanese martial art of wielding the . The naginata is a weapon resembling the European glaive and the Chinese guan dao. Most naginatajutsu practiced today is in a modernized form, a gendai budō, in which competitions also are held.
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- In later Japanese history, the naginata was associated with female samurai.
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- Naginatajutsu(長刀術、 薙刀術)
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- Weaponry (Naginata)
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- History
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- Pre-Modern Japan
- Modern Japan
- Koryū Naginata
- Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū
- Suiō-ryū
- Other traditions
- Atarashii Naginata
- The practice
- Equipment
- Philosophical aspects
- Gradings
- Naginata in other countries
- Australia
- Brazil
- Atarashii Naginata
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- Canada
- World Naginata Championships
- European Naginata Championships
- Popular culture
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is the Japanese martial art of wielding the . The naginata is a weapon resembling the European glaive and the Chinese guan dao. Most naginatajutsu practiced today is in a modernized form, a gendai budō, in which competitions also are held.
==History== ===Origins=== The naginata originates from development of the Japanese spear called hoko yari of the later 1st millennium AD. It has been suggested that it developed along the same lines as Okinawan kobudō weapons as a modified farming tool. Others say that creative samurai in need of a longer weapon attached a sword to a pole. Perhaps the simplest explanation is the natural development of polearms. Polearms are intended as mass weapons, to be used not just by individual warriors, but by formations of soldiers together on field battles and not for dueling. When fighting in close order, two-handed cut-and-thrust weapons, such as halberds and glaives, are much more efficient than mere spears or swords because of their versatility compared to spears and longer reach compared to swords. Fighting in massed formation does not require similar individual weapon-handling skills as required by a skilled swordsman. Naginata are almost identical in appearance to both the glaive and the guan dao, and it is most likely result of parallel evolution.