ONLINE ONLY ESTATE COLLECTABLE AUCTION
Thursday, 3 - Tuesday, 8 June 2021
JAPANESE WEAPON. Kusarigama. WEIGHT + CHAIN + HOOKED BLADED STAFF
Estimate $200 - $800
Realised: $420 plus premium
Lot Details
Attacking with the weapon usually entailed swinging the weighted chain in a large circle over one's head, and then whipping it forward to entangle an opponent's spear, sword, or other weapon, or immobilizing their arms or legs. This allows the kusarigama user to easily rush forward and strike with the sickle. Also, the weapon is said to have the highest mortality rate of any and all weapons of its time.[10]. A kusarigama (Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. "chain-sickle") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain (kusari) with a heavy iron weight (fundo) at the end. This example looks old but don't know if original.
