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I've just never heard them called that. :p

I've heard sai hai no kan, which refers to tassels that indicated rank that were hung on them.

When you mentioned the Museo Orientale, at first I...

Samurai nipple rings. :p

There's a lot of theories propounded about rings on weapons. Many cite applicative ideas like what you mentioned YinOrYan, or that the rings cause more damage, or that they can be used to entangle...

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...but thanks for at least confirming that it may have been on a sword tassel thread. That's where I remember it too. And that was one of our better threads, where we actually discussed something....

I thought it was there also. I only found this one, which ends in me wondering what became of that thread. I'm beginning to wonder if the web ate it.

...but deleted threads will pop up on a search I do, as long as they weren't completely removed. The problem is that 'rings' is such a general term that it's to noisy for a decent search. I've...

...I just did a cursory search but didn't find it. I'll keep looking. My search fu is off today.