Primary sword of the ninja. Shorter than the long-sword traditionally used by the samurai class of warriors. The scabbard of the ninja sword often works as a club, underwater snorkel or other handy tool. Where a samurai would never consider even drawing his sword unless it was to further his spiritual ideals, a ninja might use his sword as a disposable step ladder (standing on the guard), as a crowbar, or whatever was necessary to accomplish his mission. As such, there are no traditional, ninja - to ninja swords. Their swords were of far inferior quality to the modern reproduction blades that we have today. Each clan had their own style of sword fighting, and their own style of swords. Some ninja clans did possess high quality swords, in the style of the Japanese Samurai Sword (katana) but this is rare.All ninja or even all warriors, if they expected to live were masters of the use of swords. To the ninja, the sword was a primary weapon, but it wasn't revered as the Samurai did with their katanas.
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