ninjatō

See also: ninjato

English

Noun

ninjatō (plural ninjatō)

  1. Alternative form of ninjato.
    • 2010, Max Brooks, “Steve and Fred”, in John Joseph Adams, editor, The Living Dead 2, San Francisco, Calif.: Night Shade Books, →ISBN, pages 205–206:
      The ninjatō’s twenty-three-inch blade glinted in the noonday sun, as bright and clear as the day Sensei Yamamoto had presented it to him in Okinawa.
    • 2020, Cari Z, L.A. Witt, chapter 2, in Hitman vs. Hitman, GallagherWitt, →ISBN:
      He struck a pose. “Ta-daa!” / Torralba didn’t look impressed. “Fucking ninjas,” he muttered. / “Do you think so?” August looked down at himself. “I think I need a ninjatō to really sell the image, personally, but—”
    • 2021, John Goodrich, chapter 7, in Little Britches, Macabre Ink, →ISBN:
      “You mean there’s some maniac running around, cutting our people up with a samurai sword?” Chi’s incredulity made him lean forward, eyes wide. “What is wrong with people? In the good old days, we used machetes.” / “Possibly also a ninjatō,” Mattis put in, unhelpfully. “It’s unlikely to be a machete.”

Japanese

Romanization

ninjatō

  1. Rōmaji transcription of にんじゃとう