Talk:Kusarigama

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I went ahead and rewrote most of this. The Inuyasha stuff was nice, especially since I wrote it three months ago on an anime discussion board, but I'm not entirely sure why it was placed here, so I got rid of that.

I could go into a paragraph or two about *why* you can't swing the sickle-end around and expect to hit anything, but I'm not sure that's relevant to the article.

Question for previous editor: How is the kusarigama *not* derived from the kama?

Scribe--69.168.38.86 07:15, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

since it was apparently stolen

i think that you statement about throwing only the weight is incorrect. iseing the Kama end gives it a 10 foot reach AND the chance to entangle. Oh, well.

[edit] Question about name

I did a bit of editing and clean-up, but I didn't add any text/info. One question, though.... The article uses two different ways to spell/punctuate the name of this weapon: "kusarigama" and "kusari-gama". Is one more correct than the other? Does it matter? It would be good to be consistant within the article, but I have little/no expertise in the subjects of Japanese language (or translation thereof) OR martial arts weapons, I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Mutableye 02:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I think "Kusarigama" is better than "Kusari-gama" as the latter could be mistaken to be a combined form of "kusari" and "gama". --Revth 03:22, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Not sure how to change this, but a Kama isn't the same as a sickle, despite the remark in the opening paragraph. If anyone knows how to change opening paragraphs, would you mind doing so?

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