Tantojutsu

{{Short description|Japanese knife fighting systems}}

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Tantōjutsu (短刀術) is a Japanese term for a variety of traditional Japanese knife fighting systems that used the tantō (短刀), as a knife or dagger.{{cite book | last=Mol | first=S. | title=Classical Weaponry of Japan: Special Weapons and Tactics of the Martial Arts | publisher=Kodansha International | year=2003 | isbn=978-4-7700-2941-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzIXkFec0e8C&pg=PA25 | access-date=2024-02-25 | page=25}}{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/TedGambordellaTheCompleteBookOfKarateWeapons | title=Ted Gambordella the Complete Book of Karate Weapons }} Historically, many women used a version of the tantō, called the kaiken, for self-defense, but warrior women in pre-modern Japan learned one of the tantōjutsu arts to fight in battle.