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Kama The kama is one of the traditional Okinawan weapons. Before it became a weapon kama was an agricultural sickle used to cut weeds and bring in the crop. It was a very simple but very sharp and potentially deadly weapon. It has a long wooden handle and a thin razor-sharp curved blade at one end. It makes a formidable weapon even against the most determined enemy. When used in pairs kamas were easily reversed in the hand for both slashing and striking in many directions. If, however, the modern sickle resembles the ones used by the feudal farming class, it is apparent that one single blocking technique would sever the blade from the shaft and make it useless. Its structure made the kama very weak when attacked with heavy blows directly to the blade. Therefore, it has been redesigned. The new weapon is called the natagama. It is stronger in its construction, because the blade runs through past the curve of the normal kama, all the way down into the handle. This makes the cutting edge bigger, and above all, the previous weak point where the sickle was attached to the stick is eliminated. It is possible that more sturdy kama were constructed for fighting, although farming ones were also used for combat. Click here to see our Kama selection The Wikipedia entry for Kama is here
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