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"Hand made High-Impact Plastic Kusari Fundo".
Our hand made Plastic Kusari Fundo features a rubber encased cord wrapped handle (ensuring a superior grip), super strong plastic core, and soft/durable rope allowing for realistic training. You'll enjoy many
years of training with this high quality tool. *Average length is 36 inches.
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Kusari-fundo is a hand held weapon used in feudal Japan consisting of
a length of chain (kusari) with a weight (fundo) connected to each end
of the chain. Various sizes and shapes of chain and weight were used
as there was no set rule on the construction of these weapons. Other
popular names are manrikigusari meaning ten thousand power chain
or just manriki.
The chain (kusari)
Typically the length of the forged chain could vary from around 12
inches up to 48 inches. The chain could have many different shapes
including round, elliptical, and egg shaped. The thickness of the chain
also varied. Usually the first link of chain attached to the weight was
round and often larger and thicker then the rest of the links of the
chain.
The weight (fundo)
The fundo of a kusari fundo.The weight attached to each end of the
chain could have many different sizes and shapes, the weights were
usually exactly matched in size and shape but on some of the related
chain and weight weapons the weights could be completely different
from each other, with one weight being much longer then the other like
a handle on one end or one weight could be round while the other
weight could be rectangular. Weight shapes include round, hexagon,
and rectangle. The weight could be fairly light or quite heavy with the
typical weight being from 56.25 grams to 112.5 grams.
UseThe use of the kusari-fundo was taught in several different schools
ryu as a hidden or concealed weapon and as a self defense weapon.
The kusari-fundo was useful when carrying a sword was not allowed or
practical, samurai police of the Edo period would use a kusari-fundo as
one of their non lethal arresting weapons.
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