Weapons - Sai  (continued)

From left to right: two octagonal sais; two manji sais, a tape measure, two jittes (by some spelled jutte), part of a nunte bo (a staff with, in this case, a manji sai mounted on it), and two typical round sais. Sensei Mario McKenna translated a short biography of Taira Shinken (1897-1970) which mentions the manji sai at length: http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=119

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