Gallery
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Close up view of an antique tachi tsuka (handle), one of the "ashi" (sword hanger) can be seen.
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Antique tachi and koshirae, British museum.
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Tachi "kissaki" (blade tip), Bizen school, signed "Tachimei, Bizen no Kuni Osafune Yoshigake"; Nambokusho era (14th century).
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Tachi forged in 1997 by Matsuda Tsuguyasu, tachi koshirae made in 1999 by Takeyama. Copy of a tachi blade from the end of the Heian era (11th century). Galley Duno, Geneva.
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Various types of "koshiate", a device used to carry a sword in the tachi style (cutting edge down).
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Line drawing showing the correct method of wearing a tachi while in armour.
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