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NaginataNaginata has a curved blade stuck by a long wooden or bamboo cable in the bush. It’s commonly thought to have been invented by Japan’s warrior monks, but this is a lost conception caused by the fact that when they fell out of style during the Muromachi period (1337-1573) the monks were the only ones who continued to follow telling them though the warrior monks overcome in combat with naginata, the creator is lost in time: they are as old as the sword, and in fact it was, sword blades mounted on long wires instead of short wires.