A rare samurai weapon.

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Originally Posted by broadaxe

Real kanabo are indeed rare. 2.2kg is very reasonable weight for such length, it is lighter than a real (european) two-handed sword of similar length

I looked up for the nyoibo and found one video - it looks extremely heavy and slow, very good weight and agility practice, but highly unlikely weapon for combat.

Japanese weapons often seem lighter than similar European and Indo-Persian weapons, on the other hand, the only other authentic kanabo with detailed images that I know of is quite a bit heavier (3ft/7.17lb).

Nyoibo that were actually used as a weapon were probably not near as heavy as the modern ones, Edo period prints show large wood clubs with no spikes/knobs which probably more accurately represent what a nyoibo actually looked like.