This is done to condition the martial artist to handle a normal-sized weapon more efficiently ( e. g. in Japanese martial arts with the suburitō, a heavy wooden sword ).

The weight of the suburitō is used for strengthening and conditioning in addition to development of spirit.

The suburitō is used to perfect individual technique as well.

A suburitō is commonly around 115 cm ( 45 in ) in length, with a mass of 1 kg ( 2. 2 lb ).

Musashi supposedly fashioned the long bokken, a type called a suburitō due to its above-average length, by shaving down the spare oar of the boat in which he arrived at the duel with his wakizashi ( the wood was very hard ).

Legend has it that Miyamoto Musashi carved a bokken that resembled a suburitō out of a boat oar as he traveled to his famous duel with Sasaki Kojiro, whom he supposedly killed.

Often a shinai ( for kendo ), bokken, suburitō, or even tanren bō are used.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; ;

from downstream, where the water level is much lower, it is a high, elaborately facaded pavilion.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.

the mill-pond is quiet, its surface dark and shadowed, and there does not seem to be much water in it.

Professionally a lawyer, that is to say associated with dignity, reserve, discipline, with much that is essentially middle-class, he is compelled by an impossible love to exhibit himself dressed up, disguised -- that is, paradoxically, revealed -- as a child, and, worse, as a whore masquerading as a child.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

Actually, this is only another way of saying that blood is thicker than water.

The brick ’ s thickness is preferred partially due to its thermal characteristics, and partially due to the stability of a thicker brick versus a more standard-sized brick.

* Ash ( Persian food ), similar to soup but thicker, which is usually served hot

An example of a compostable polymer is PLA film under 20μm thick: films which are thicker than that do not qualify as compostable, even though they are biodegradable.

The dry press method is similar to mud brick but starts with a much thicker clay mix, so it forms more accurate, sharper-edged bricks.

Braille embossers usually need special braille paper which is thicker and more expensive than normal paper.

The only difference between these paper styles is the front cover, which was thicker on the Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAX, but the same as the pages throughout in the weekly Beano.

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.

In plants, a secondary cell wall is a thicker additional layer of cellulose which increases wall rigidity.

The thickness of the yarn may vary along its length ; a slub is a much thicker section in which a mass of fibers is incorporated into the yarn.

It is a common perception that crochet produces a thicker fabric than knitting, tends to have less " give " than knitted fabric, and uses approximately a third more yarn for a comparable project than knitted items.

Double bass rosin is generally softer and stickier than violin rosin to allow the hair to grab the thicker strings better, but players use a wide variety of rosins that vary from quite hard ( like violin rosin ) to quite soft, depending on the weather, the humidity, and the preference of the player.

To accommodate the additional string, the fingerboard is usually slightly wider, and the top slightly thicker to handle the increased tension.

Atmet is a barley and oat-flour based drink that is cooked with water, sugar and kibe ( Ethiopian clarified butter ) until the ingredients have married and become a consistency slightly thicker than egg-nog.

The observation that old windows are sometimes found to be thicker at the bottom than at the top is often offered as supporting evidence for the view that glass flows over a timescale of centuries.

The resulting glass is thicker at the location of the pour, located at the center of the large sheet.

It features a color screen and is slightly thicker and taller than the Game Boy Pocket.

Shoes are attached on the palmar surface of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail, though much larger and thicker.

While thinner than a swaged bullet jacket, the plated jacket is far thicker than normal electroplate, and provides significant structural integrity to the bullet.

While the jaguar closely resembles the leopard, it is sturdier and heavier, and the two animals can be distinguished by their rosettes: the rosettes on a jaguar's coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks.

The thickness of the yarn may vary along its length ; a slub is a much thicker section in which a mass of fibers is incorporated into the yarn.