Variations of Yari Shafts (nagaye or Ebu)
A yari shaft can range in length from one meter to upwards of six meters (3.3 to 20 feet).
- Nagae yari (long shafted spear) 16.4 ft to 19.7 ft long, a type of pike used by ashigaru.
- Mochi yari (hand spear), a long spear used by ashigaru and samurai.
- Kuda yari (管槍, tube spear). The shaft (nagaye or ebu) of the kuda yari goes through a hollow metal tube that allowed the kuda yari to be twisted while being thrust. This style of sojutsu is typified in the school Owari Kan Ryū.
- Makura Yari (pillow spear). A yari with a short simple shaft (nagaye or ebu) that was kept by the bedside for home protection.
- Te yari (hand spear). A yari with a short shaft (nagaye or ebu) that was used by samurai police to help capture criminals.
Read more about this topic: Yari
Famous quotes containing the words variations and/or shafts:
“I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)
“It was undoubtedly the feeling of exile—that sensation of a void within which never left us, that irrational longing to hark back to the past or else to speed up the march of time, and those keen shafts of memory that stung like fire.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)