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The sword could also help the ninja to gain some extra height if he needed to climb a wall by leaning the weapon up against it. The ninja could then step onto its hilt and loop the suspensory cord around his foot so that when he climbed the wall he could pull the sword up. Other weapons included clawed knuckle-dusters called tekken which were iron objects and were actually originally designed to aid climbing. A similar artefact was the hokode or hand claws. Again these were to aid climbing and consisted of a number of sharp iron thimbles which slotted on to the ninja's finger tips and gave the wearer's hands something of a demonic appearance.

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