sickle ②leading question ③sickle-and-chain (weapon) ④spear with curved cross-blades

Kamakura (city)

sickle and chain (weapon)

scythe

legs bowed in

cut in the skin caused by a vacuum formed by a whirlwind ②mythical weasel-like creatures riding on whirlwinds and inflicting sharp, painless wounds

Kamakura period (1185-1333 CE)

Kamakura shogunate (1185-1333)

sickle-shaped neck (e.g. snake, praying mantis)

sharp sickle

cutting grass and trees is prohibited

sickle-shaped

harvesting

carvings of the Kamakura style

spear with curved cross-blades

new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

two sickles used in Okinawan Kobudo

Hozoin-ryu (school of sojutsu)

grass sickle

grass sickle