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Ono (斧) (masa-kari) is the Japanese word for an axe or a hatchet and is used to describe various tools of similar structure. As with axes in other cultures ono are sometimes employed as weapons. Many academic references and documented existing examples of this particular weapon are associated with the sōhei or yamabushi (warrior monks) who also adapt other agricultural tools as weapons although samurai are also pictured as using ono in wood block prints.
