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Translation for 'naginata' from English to Spanish

naginata

naginata {f}armas

• naginata {f} = naginata

• Supposedly, Guan Yu's weapon was a guan dao named Green Dragon Crescent Blade, which resembled a podao, glaive, or naginata and was said to weigh 82 catties (about 49.2 kg or 108.4674 lbs).
• Some names of the naginata kata are the same as those in the Hokushin Musō-ryū (北辰夢想流) densho (伝書).
• It is assumed that the "naginata" was developed from an earlier weapon type of the later 1st millennium AD, the "hoko yari".
• The kama-yari is believed to have been developed by Kakuzenbo Hoin In’ei, who wanted to improve upon the "naginata" used by Buddhist priests at the time.
• The word "shi" literally translates to death (死) in Japanese, and Shi's signature weapon is the "naginata".

• The naginata and yari were more commonly used than swords for Japanese ashigaru foot soldiers and dismounted samurai due to their greater reach.
• The form of contemporary Asian pole arms (the Japanese naginata and the Chinese guan dao for example) has led to speculation that one could have influenced the other as regional trade brought the cultures together.
• The modern version of naginata practice, called "new Naginata" (新しいなぎなた "atarashii naginata"), is one of the nine official modern budō recognized by the Nippon Budōkan.
• Unlike the "naginata", the hands do not change when handling the weapon and the right hand was always the closest to the blade.
• It is similar to the Japanese naginata, the Chinese guandao, the Korean woldo, and the Russian sovnya.

• The school's main curriculum consists of twenty-five naginata kata and ten tantō kata.
• The samurai were armed with traditional weapons including katanas, naginata and yari polearms, yumi bows, and Sengoku era gunpowder weapons such as tanegashima, bajō-zutsu, and wooden cannons.
• In combat, Gengetsu wields the [...] naginata and can perform the [...] and the [...] attacks.
• The naginata consisted of an approximately [...] long shaft and a [...] blade.