Kaiken (novel)
A is a long, single (or rare double-edged) knife without ornamental fittings housed in a plain mount. Uses It was once carried by men and women of the samurai class in Japan. It was useful for self-defense in indoor spaces where the long blade ''katana'' and intermediate sword ''wakizashi'' were inconvenient. Women carried them in their kimono either in a pocket-like space (futokoro) or in the sleeve pouch (tamoto) for self-defense and for Seppuku#Female ritual suicide, ritual suicide by slashing the veins in the left side of the neck. When a samurai woman married, she was expected to carry a kaiken with her when she moved in with her husband. In modern Japan, a kaiken is worn as a traditional accessory for formal Kimono#Accessories and related garments, kimono, such as a furisode, uchikake and a shiromuku, tucked into their Obi (sash), obi. Orthography Due to pronunciation changes over time, the ''kwaiken'' is now called a ''kaiken''. The kaiken is also referred to as ...
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