nodowa
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 喉輪 (literally “throat ring”).
Noun
[edit]nodowa
- (sumo) A thrust at the opponent's throat.
- An item of Japanese armor protecting the throat: a gorget.
- 1997, Bob Orlando, Martial Arts America: A Western Approach to Eastern Arts, Frog Books, →ISBN, page 36:
- Attempting such a strike against a samurai would have been disastrous since they wore a gorget (nodowa) attached to their helmet or had armor covering the chin to the throat area in order to protect from that very kind of attack.
- 2013, George Cameron Stone, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 472:
- The nodowa proper is fastened at the back of the neck by cords, the meguriwa by hooks and the eriwa by a buckle. […] none of the nodowa I have seen that were a part of the neck guard of the menpo had any means of fastening thtem to the corselet.