Get to know Daishō better with 5 real example sentences, the meaning.
Daishō in a sentence
Daishō meaning
A traditional Japanese pair of swords, consisting of the katana and wakizashi.
Using Daishō
- The main meaning on this page is: A traditional Japanese pair of swords, consisting of the katana and wakizashi.
Context around Daishō
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Daishō
- In this selection, "daishō" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, momofuku, eventually and contained stand out and add context to how "daishō" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include afford a daishō it was and armed with daishō. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "daishō" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with daishō
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Daishō eventually came to mean two swords having a matched set of fittings. (13 words)
Even when a daishō contained a pair of blades by the same smith, they were not always forged as a pair or mounted as one. (25 words)
Many Canadians have travelled to international locations and others visited a one-day pop-up the company held in 2017 at the now defunct Momofuku Daishō in Toronto. (28 words)
During the Edo period samurai went about on foot unarmored, and with much less combat being fought on horseback in open battlefields the need for an effective close quarter weapon resulted in samurai being armed with daishō. (37 words)
If a samurai was able to afford a daishō, it was often composed of whichever two swords could be conveniently acquired, sometimes by different smiths and in different styles. (29 words)
Many Canadians have travelled to international locations and others visited a one-day pop-up the company held in 2017 at the now defunct Momofuku Daishō in Toronto. (28 words)
Example sentences (5)
Many Canadians have travelled to international locations and others visited a one-day pop-up the company held in 2017 at the now defunct Momofuku Daishō in Toronto.
Daishō eventually came to mean two swords having a matched set of fittings.
During the Edo period samurai went about on foot unarmored, and with much less combat being fought on horseback in open battlefields the need for an effective close quarter weapon resulted in samurai being armed with daishō.
Even when a daishō contained a pair of blades by the same smith, they were not always forged as a pair or mounted as one.
If a samurai was able to afford a daishō, it was often composed of whichever two swords could be conveniently acquired, sometimes by different smiths and in different styles.