Tanto (Japanese 短刀 tanto: literally "short sword") is a samurai's dagger. "Tanto" for the Japanese sounds like a phrase, because they do not perceive tanto as just a knife (a knife in Japanese is hamono (Japanese 刃 物 hamono)). Tanto has a one-sided, sometimes double-edged blade up to 1 shaku (30.3 cm) long and a total length with the handle conditionally ≈ 30-50 cm (usually 35-45 cm).
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