Talk:薙刀
Latest comment: 4 years ago by 213.113.48.251
When it comes to the meaning of nata (鉈):
See hatchet, Machete, and Froe. Then see what a nata is.
(and/or consult entries for nata, in Jp-Jp dictionaries or Japanese encyclopedias, such as Japanese Wikipedia, for example)
It's clearly not an axe.
A hatchet is a type of axe.
By definition.
As is a froe.
Furthermore, a nata is clearly not a machete nor, at all, similar to a machete. It is used for similar purposes, but that is quite beside the point. A bayonet is used as a spear, to take an example, but no sane person would claim that it a bayonet is a spear.--213.113.48.251 05:26, 9 September 2019 (UTC)