TANTO SWORDTanto is a dagger of the samurai.Tan to for the Japanese sounds like a phrase, because they do not perceive tanto as just a knife (a knife in Japanese — hamono).Tanto was used only as an auxiliary weapon (for finishing, cutting heads, harakiri, etc.), and never as a knife — it existed wear to work with a tanto or wakizashi in special grooves of their small sheath knife Cagatay (often incorrectly called kozuka, although kozuka — only his arm).