Illustration: In a sword polisher's modest workshop, a finished Japanese sword rests horizontally on a low wooden stand. Its gently curved blade is fully exposed, with the single cutting edge, small circular guard, and long wrapped grip clearly visible. The matching lacquered scabbard lies parallel beneath it.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

刀かたな

katana

Japanese sword

Example sentences

江戸時代えどじだい、武士ぶしは刀かたなを２本刺ほんさしていた。
A samurai in the Edo era carried two swords.
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彼かれは鋼はがねを鍛きたえて刀かたなを作つくった。
He forged the steel into a sword.
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その刀かたなは王子おうじにふさわしい。
That sword is fit for a prince.
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Kanji in 刀

刀sword; saberOnトウKunかたな・そり

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