![]() ![]() Students of the Chinese martial arts have a particularly fascinating object of study in the Dadao and its adoption by certain troops during the 1930s and 1940s. Yet whether it is the Nepalese kukri, the Japanese katana or the Chinese dadao, both collectors and practicing martial artists are increasingly drawn to these vintage bladed weapons. It is interesting to speculate on why these weapons were surging in popularity in the Asian theater at exactly the time that one would have expected them to disappear. Recently some of this attention has come to focus on the blades of the Second World War. It is clear that weapons training is enjoying a renaissance within the modern martial arts community. This image was in the photo album along with the record of confiscated weapons below. An image of a Japanese soldier holding a Gunto in China during WWII.
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