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fearn · 27th April 2013, 04:00 PM

You can see some of these darts in the fifth picture down in this article:

http://chinesemartialstudies.com/201...partment-1925/

My suspicion is that they aren't often collected because the more modern examples were gang weapons. In Japan, there were small schools of shuriken-jitsu, and the older examples seem to have been passed from teacher to disciple. It's unclear that this happened in China.

Incidentally, there are a several of the precursors to the Fairbairn-Sykes knife in the seventh picture down.

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27th April 2013, 04:00 PM	#7
fearn Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,247	You can see some of these darts in the fifth picture down in this article: http://chinesemartialstudies.com/201...partment-1925/ My suspicion is that they aren't often collected because the more modern examples were gang weapons. In Japan, there were small schools of shuriken-jitsu, and the older examples seem to have been passed from teacher to disciple. It's unclear that this happened in China. Incidentally, there are a several of the precursors to the Fairbairn-Sykes knife in the seventh picture down. F