The nodachi, also known as the odachi, is a type of traditionally made Japanese sword used by the samurai class of feudal Japan. Its rough equivalent in Chinese arms of comparable weight and length is the miaodao or the earlier zhanmadao, and its Western battlefield counterpart is the Zweihander. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Weapon Class Introduced YearStart of the Kamakura period (1185 to 1333), the era the source's own infobox production-date field names as when this sword type began being made; the source states production continued to the present, so this is the earliest attested year, not a single moment of invention. Classification
Service Status Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)Sword / Polearm / Bladed 2 Connections
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: Nodachi
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ōdachi
Article textQuote, Article text
As ōdachi became useless, it was often replaced with a tachi and uchigatana.
2. Wikipedia: Nodachi
WikipediaHistory section, second sentence
Until the middle of the Kamakura period, high-ranking samurai mainly fought on horseback with yumi (bows), but as group battles by foot soldiers increased from the late Kamakura period, the importance of weapons possessed by those who did not have horses and did not have sufficient training in bows increased.
- Introduced circa 1185 per the entity's own sourced description text; no pre-1900 weapon system remains in current active military service.
Operated By: Samurai, Infobox: used_by
Samurai, kenjutsu, iaido practitioners
In Group: Medieval Swords and Sabres, Infobox: type
Sword
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