Japanese -n. A hardwood stick shaped roughly like a katana, usually used for practicing forms. Kunou Tatewaki is rarely without one.
The Japanese term in kenjutsu for a katana shaped out of wood. Used to train samurai in feudal Japan, it is now used as a training weapon in various Japanese sword arts. Some other martial arts (and all pedants) call it a bokuto. Kaoru tends to use a bokken when she fights.
a heavy wooden staff, about the size of a katana, and is used for training in certain forms of martial arts
wooden sword curved and shaped in accordance as a steel katana would be.
Solid wooden sword used for training purposes in kendo and other martial arts. In the hands of an expert it can deliver fatal blows.
(bohk-ken) wooden training sword
wooden training sword; bokkentori sword taking technique
wooden sword (Kaoru/Yahiko uses this to fight)
Wooden sword. Many aikido movements are derived from traditional Japanese fencing. In advanced practice, weapons such as the Bokken are used in learning subtleties of certain movements, the relationships obtaining between armed and unarmed techniques, defenses against weapons, and the like. See Bokuto.
Wooden replica of a samurai sword
Wooden Sword used in Aikido and Kendo training
Wooden sword used in martial arts training. Known also as a bokuto in other forms of martial arts. In kendo, this sword is especially important when learning kata (see below)
Bokken is the Japanese word for a wooden sword. Rashel Jordan uses a bokken to stake vampires in The Chosen.-- Back.
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A wooden sword, originally used by samurai in place of a real sword during practice, now a weapon in its own right.
A bokken (, bok(u), "wood", and ken, "sword"), is a wooden Japanese sword used for training, usually the size and shape of a katana, but sometimes shaped like other swords. Other common shapes are wakizashi and tantÅ. They are also known as bokutÅ (, "wooden sword"), which is also the usual term in Japan.