Hello again. I hope you've been well. A little more than a year ago, I released a pack called 'WLs Traditional Japanese Weapons Pack'. Since then it has gotten 13k downloads with 6 thumbs and a 5-star rating, making it basically my best pack on the site; to honor that, I put together a sequel. You'll find 9 unique weapons (13 if you count variations) from Feudal and Ancient Japan in this pack. Without further ado, here are the weapons:

1a) Sasumata

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The Sasumata, meaning Spear Fork, is a very long mancatcher in the Torimono Sandogu series. Used to contain, push, and catch criminals or misbehavors. This tool is technically used today, just not in the exact design that you see here; and I think we should go over that word; tool. The Torimono Sandogu were just tools. You can also find Sasumata in Japanese classrooms for teachers to push away potential invaders and protect students.

1b) Tsukubo

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The Tsukubo, meaning Push Pole, is a nice and lengthy mancatcher in the Torimono Sandogu series. Much like the Sasumata, it was used by Samurai and Police forces; and Samurai Police forces. Unlike the Sasumata, however, its use isn't as widespread today as it's more popular fanged counterpart. Looks pretty cool though.

1c) Sodegarami

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The Sodegarami, meaning Sleeve Entangler, is a 7-foot pole weapon in the Torimono Sandogu. It was used to entangle clothes, but I can definitely see it being a very painful tool of torture and warfare. For obvious reasons, it isn't used today like the Sasumata. If Police don't want someone getting away, they can just taser them.

2a) Su Yari I'll start by talking about Yari in a broad term. The Yari was a straight-headed spear used by Japanese soldiers and Samurai. There were many types of this weapon; it wasn't like, say, the Wakizashi, which is a specific name for that specific sword. The Yari is a blanket term, basically. In this pack, I included just the Su Yari and Jumonji Yari, which we can go over now. Su Yari ("Simple Spear") was, like the name suggests, a very simple weapon. The most commonly used and popularly known variation of this spear, it was just a straight double-edged blade.

2b) Jumonji Yari

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Starting off where the last one ended, the Jumonji Yari ("Cross-shaped Spear") was another type of Yari with two pronged blades sticking out the sides, resembling something like a failed Trident. It has a few variations itself (Jogekama, Karigata, Gyaku) and you may know it by the name Maga Yari.

3) Nagamaki + Scabbard

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The Nagamaki is a sword with a very long handle, almost reminiscing the Changdao from the Chinese. An excellent weapon, it was used more like a katana than a polearm, despite what you might think. My Nagamaki depicted here has a larger handle then most, but this is irrelevant since there were still Nagamakis that looked exactly like this.

4) Odachi/Nodachi + Scabbard

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If you saw my last pack, you may have noticed that there was already a Nodachi in it. I thought that it was a little inaccurate, even if it has some appeal, it was still badly made. So here is an Odachi. Though the terms are basically interchangeable, Odachi is different than Nodachi and you wouldn't want 'WL_Nodachi-2' in your library.

5) Tonfa

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The Tonfa, or in the thumbnail's case, Tonfas, were a traditional Okinawan melee weapon used in many martial arts. They were always wielded in pairs, and could be used to strike, parry, even act as a shield. The actual origin of this weapon is debated, from China to Indonesia; but the Traditional Story tells us it is from Okinawans gathering weapons to defend against the Samurai. Technically, in that time, Japanese and Ryukyuan/Okinawan were different cultures, nowadays the entire Ryukyu Island chain is Japanese territory, so I included it in this pack.

6) Otsuchi

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The Otsuchi was a large wooden hammer/mallet wielded by samurai, used as door-breachers and man-crushers. It's basically what you think of when you say 'cartoon hammer', being large and unwieldy and, well, cartoonish. Still a very pretty weapon that has great importance, though.

7) Chigiriki

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The Chigiriki was a Japanese flail-type weapon with stereotypical flail-y features. They could have a variety of staff lengths, but I chose a longer one since I thought it made it stand out more compared to the flail I made in the Medieval Weapon Pack. The Chigiriki was also sometimes retractable, which I almost added as a feature, but couldn't make it work how I wanted it to. Maybe in a future pack.

8) Shichishito

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The Shichishito, also known commonly in English as the Seven-Branched Sword, was a legendary sword used by the Empress Jingu in ancient Japanese myth gifted by foreign delegates. It is thought to be made in Korea, called the Chiljido (Korean Weapon Pack when?), then gifted by the king of Baekje, the Ancient Korean Kingdom. It is very interesting, so I suggest you read into it; for now, enjoy this sword, which I made of my own design.

9) Nunchucks

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The Nunchucks, or Nunchaku/Chainsticks, are another Okinawan weapon I included in the pack. One of the more popular weapons, almost at the level of the Katana, the Nunchucks were made popular through their beautiful and almost mesmerizing performance in the hands of a master - and their usage by Turtles and Legendary Martial Artist Movie Stars (LMAMS). This figure may be weird to use, as I couldn't make the function in the direct middle of the chain, so instead there is the prime handle and the mover handle. Remember that when using this for animation.

I'd like to note that while some of these weapons aren't ABSOLUTELY Japanese, they do have close ties with the country. And if any names were spelled wrong, and history was wrong, or any designs were wrong; Tell me and I will try to make a new pack for historically accurate weapons.

Now that that is over with; the weapons in this pack almost all have color-changeable pieces to make them feel more unique, the only exceptions being the Torimono Sandogu and Tonfas. They are also relatively low-node and have movement spots that aren't ridiculously hard to reach, whether they be too short or a mile away from the main node. I'd also like to note that they are very editable as well, so if you want to make an OC weapon and can't find an anchor, this is for you.

I have a lot of figures I'd like to make next, but things might get more spread apart, as school is coming up; or could that mean more figures since I prefer to do that over work? We will see. As always, requests are open, and I don't charge anything. I'm also going to shamelessly advertisement my server again. Please, go join it. Directly next on the figure list: 3 Assault Rifles Pack, Chinese Weapon Pack 2, or Roman Legionary Pack (To test out my new sparkly base).

I wonder if I can type so much that it breaks the page? One day I will find out.
Have a good day and don't forget about yourself 🙂

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