Talk:Kanabō

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Oni picture

Is the picture really of an oni with a tetsubo? It looks an awful lot like a studded club and not a staff to me. --maru (talk) contribs 02:29, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy

A "kanabō" ("金棒" or (rarely) "鉄棒") as a weapon is usually not called "tetsubō" in Japanese, is it? A "鉄棒" ("tetsubō") is an iron bar in general or a horizontal bar. I'm not sure about in English language though. Mulukhiyya 15:51, 10 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I redirected the title and edited the page. --Oda Mari 05:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Legend of the Five Rings

It is highly doubtful that the paragraph about the tetsubo in "Legend of the Five Rings" belongs in an encyclopaedia article at all. It certainly needs context. I have made an interim attempt to provide this, but something more definite is required. I suggest deleting the information as trivial. Agemegos (talk) 22:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Provider of a Great Workout....

But I do not think it was used as a weapon. I always thought the Kanabo was used by the Samurai to build strength for wielding a sword. The logic behind it being, if you can control that thing, you can control a sword. So, yeah, the Samurai had a form of strength training designed for swordplay, they used as much the suburito, as the "Kanabo" if that is what its called. Please source it; I know of the "weapons" use but I do not think the martial art "kanabo jutsu" exists.

206.63.78.82 (talk)stardingo747 —Preceding undated comment was added at 01:09, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

other knone names

the kanabo is also knone as the tetsubo. tetsu meening long stick and bo meening metal. i have taken the name from the site http://www.nihonzashi.com/japanese_weapons_tetsubo.aspx it to is a japaness war club wielded by oni.