Battle Axe - Tofu

Japanese: 闘斧 - とうふ
Battle Axe - Tofu
A striking or throwing weapon with an axe-shaped blade. Also called a battle axe. There are stone and metal products. Apart from axes for felling trees, processing, and digging, battle axes made specifically for fighting appeared in Mesopotamia around 4000 BC (based on carbon-14 dating; same below). They are polished stone products or clay imitations of them, with a circular hole in the center for inserting a handle, and either an axe-shaped blade on both ends, or a blade on one end and a hammer-shaped end on the other.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
斧状の刃部をもつ打撃または投擲(とうてき)用武器。バトル・アックスbattle axeともいう。石製品と金属製品とがある。伐採や加工用,土掘用の斧とは別に,格闘専用具として製作された闘斧は,前4000年ごろ(炭素14法年代による。以下同じ)メソポタミアに出現している。磨製の石製品あるいはそれを模造した土製品で,中央に柄を挿入するための円孔が貫通し,両端が斧状刃部,または一端が刃部で他端が槌状になっている。

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