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A was a type of traditionally made Japanese sword (nihonto) worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The tachi style of swords preceded the development of the katana—the first use of the word katana to indicate a blade different from tachi appears toward the end of the twelfth century.
Chokutō, straight swords, were also called tachi, but written as .
Tachi may mean:
- A Tachi is a type of Japanese sword.
- a suffix used in the Japanese language to indicate that a word refers to a group. See the article on Japanese grammar
- A Japanese slang term usually describing a gay, lesbian or bisexual person who identifies as a "top" or "butch". See the article on homosexuality in Japan
- A tribe of Native American Indians in California - see Yokuts and Santa Rosa Rancheria
Usage examples of "tachi".
The tachi, by contrast, was so relatively weightless that it felt less like a weapon than it did a long, sharp extension of my own arm.
She laid her own sword carefully upon the floor, then approached the tachi blade and dropped to her knees beside it.
The odds were sensational that they would endeavor to annihilate me the moment I set foot in their lair, wherever that was, take the tachi sword, and be done.
As I looked down at them from atop my horse, my hand started to wander toward the hilt of the tachi sword.
The tachi was a good piece of work, forty-six inches of priceless jade and polished stainless steel.
The tanto was the companion piece to the tachi, at a quarter of the length.
The Tachi, who herded in these hills and knew them as well as a city-dweller knew his own street, said that the machines had fallen from the sky, suspended from flowers, and drifted down and down and down by this means until they landed.
So was it indeed from the clouds that the visitations had come, and with those descending flowers, came machines that ran about the land ripping up trees and frightening Tachi children.
But one would already suppose by the felling of trees and the devastation of the stream down below, that moon-folk were a high-handed lot, lacking fear of judgment on themselves, or perhaps simply lacking any realization that the Tachi were civilized people, who ought to be respected.
I-lad the machines harmed the children, or could the Tachi prove such wandering machines had killed any of their herds?
Had the machines harmed the children, or could the Tachi prove such wandering machines had killed any of their herds?
Was it the same mysterious occurrence that had made Tachi pull abruptly away from psychic contact with Nicholas?
And from what you have told me about your experience with Tachi Shidare, he was stymied in the same manner.