Kunai

The Kunai (Japanese苦 无, literally mühe-/schmerzlos ) is a " multi-purpose device" of ancient Japan. It originated in the feudal era and was mainly used by carpenters and other craftsmen.

Description

The Kunai is a double-edged, long and wedge-shaped blade. It is forged from softer metal and not very sharp since it was often used to hard things ( wood, brick but also bone ) to split and edit. Would it be made ​​of harder steel, was a danger of breaking, as hard steels are necessarily brittle than soft. The shock loads occurring during chopping and throwing would result in a brittle blade outbreaks at the cutting or snapping off the tip. The handle is wrapped with ribbons and at the end of the handle is a ring, to which for example a rope with a weight or iron ring was attached to the kunai, causing a kunai - fundo was born. That the Kunai was a very common tool that made ​​it easy for Ninja, it inconspicuous to carry with you and use it as a weapon. They wore it diagonally tied around the body either in a leather scabbard on Obi or with a rope. Due to these circumstances, the Kunai proven as a ninja weapon and spread among them. The ninja could use it as a burglary tool, or as a climbing aid as a weapon. It was used like a Tanto. The Kunai was but two-edged in contrast to the Tanto, from which led to additional applications; also was able to dig, engraved, cut, beaten with the handle end and leveraged. Sometimes it was used as a throwing knife and spearhead.