What is "wakizashi"

Usage examples of "wakizashi".

The next, the longer katana was in his right hand and the shorter wakizashi was in his left.

She was about to move into position to grab the shorter wakizashi when Genji reached for the katana.

They would meet the charge with one of their own, and the two sides would clash with katana and wakizashi, with yumi, yari, naginata, and tanto, with the weapons and wild courage of their ancient ancestors.

A third man with a heavy ax struck at both katana and wakizashi until they broke in half.

I needed to bring up the wakizashi as well, use it as a shield to ward off the dagger.

I wanted to kill them both, right now, slicing them to bits with katana and wakizashi, but there were other men getting off the ships now.

Hiro whips the boat around and returns to him, drawing his wakizashi with his free hand, and cuts him down on the spot.

Near his foot was the smaller blade, a wakizashi, which he had noticed hanging beneath the symbol table when he first woke here.

It was a wakizashi, or Japanese short sword, with razorsharp edge and point and a blade nine and a half inches long.

Then I kneeled again and took up the wakizashi, holding the point toward me with both hands.

There was nothing obvious to give the uninitiated a scale, but from the size of the tsuba, Cierto guessed that the weapon was larger than a medium-sword, a wakizashi, or a short-sword, a tanto.

When castles became common battlegrounds, we found that even shorter swords were required for indoor combat--often treacherous, surprise attacks, by the way--so we took to wearing a second, even shorter wakizashi sword along with our katana.

I had my wakizashi, a short bolo, a dagger in my left boot, a heavy locking folder in my pocket and another on my gear, not to mention a folding multitool and a tiny one in another pocket.

Eaves wakizashi was worn like a machete, and snapped it out of the breakaway scabbard.