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The '''kamayari''' (鎌槍, sickle spear) is similar to the jumonji ]. While it also had two protrusions shooting off the base of a main spear tip, in ] the offshoots were hooked back downward. The kamayari essentially is a yari with ] at the base of the blade to assist in hooking things. Generally the hooks are large enough to hold the head, neck or jaw (when in a tree) or to hook limbs of a swordsman on the ground, thus it is different in function in this respect from other types of yari. Also the kamayari was used to hook horsemen and dismount them.<ref name="WBAR">{{Cite book | last = Ratti| first = Oscar | authorlink = | coauthors =Adele Westbrook| title = Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan| publisher = Tuttle Publishing| date = 1991| location = | pages = 484| isbn = 978-0804816847 }}</ref> |
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The '''kamayari''' (鎌槍, sickle spear) is similar to the jumonji ]. While it also had two protrusions shooting off the base of a main spear tip, in ] the offshoots were hooked back downward. The kamayari essentially is a yari with ] at the base of the blade to assist in hooking things. Generally the hooks are large enough to hold the head, neck or jaw (when in a tree) or to hook limbs of a swordsman on the ground, thus it is different in function in this respect from other types of yari. Also the kamayari was used to hook horsemen and dismount them.<ref name="WBAR">{{Cite book | last = Ratti| first = Oscar | authorlink = | coauthors =Adele Westbrook| title = Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan| publisher = Tuttle Publishing| date = 1991| location = | pages = 484| isbn = 978-0-8048-1684-7 }}</ref> |
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Historically it also had a non military use, where it was employed by Japanese firemen to pull down the roofs of burning buildings to slow a fire much the same way firemen of today would topple buildings to create a firebreak. |
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Historically it also had a non military use, where it was employed by Japanese firemen to pull down the roofs of burning buildings to slow a fire much the same way firemen of today would topple buildings to create a firebreak. |
Historically it also had a non military use, where it was employed by Japanese firemen to pull down the roofs of burning buildings to slow a fire much the same way firemen of today would topple buildings to create a firebreak.
