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I know there needs to be a naginata page--just haven't gotten around to it (feel free to make one).  I'll take a look at the forum, but I was going off of the verifiable info I could find (i.e. the stuff I could dig out of books and point to sources on).  The 'woman's weapon' gets overplayed, imho.  Yes, it was a weapon used by women, and seen as a good weapon for women to learn (I need to find a source on the info that it was apparently part of a bride's traditional gifts), but people forget that men were still the most active practitioners (or at least were the ones who were passing it down) until the Meiji era, when it was popularized as the woman's alternative to kendo.  That seems to be where you get the almost stigma against men using it, at least from everything I've read.  I'll check the forums, though, see if I can't find anything else.  As for now... I'm actually on my way to a naginata class (atarashii naginata).   

I know there needs to be a naginata page--just haven't gotten around to it (feel free to make one).  I'll take a look at the forum, but I was going off of the verifiable info I could find (i.e. the stuff I could dig out of books and point to sources on).  The 'woman's weapon' gets overplayed, imho.  Yes, it was a weapon used by women, and seen as a good weapon for women to learn (I need to find a source on the info that it was apparently part of a bride's traditional gifts), but people forget that men were still the most active practitioners (or at least were the ones who were passing it down) until the Meiji era, when it was popularized as the woman's alternative to kendo.  That seems to be where you get the almost stigma against men using it, at least from everything I've read.  I'll check the forums, though, see if I can't find anything else.  As for now... I'm actually on my way to a naginata class (atarashii naginata).   

--[[User:JLBadgley|JLBadgley]] 04:56, 26 May 2007 (PDT)

--[[User:JLBadgley|JLBadgley]] 04:56, 26 May 2007 (PDT)