http://www.korisuya.com/ thats the shop he runs selling shuriken and oher unusual weapons, including the japanese war mallet called the otsuchi
he also has a youtube channel and seems to have a quite large collection of various ninjutsu grade weapons some replicas, some antique, all in all he seems to know a fair bit about the unusual weapons of japan.
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"the proper name would actually be arare bo, arare means hail stones, it's a short variant of a tetsubo or kansai bo. usually you make it by studding a metal pipe and placing it on a piece of wood and then attaching a second pipe to serve as a handle and running a cord from the bottom. the techniques for using it are the same basically as a jutte, tessen etc and it's called naeshijutsu" |
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZzIXkFec0...navlinks_s you can read some pats of this book for free and the pages you can see cover he araebo although is covered in maybe 6-8 lines.
and i have no idea HOW he knows this, but he also told me those ararebo you have there in pictures are modern, chinese made fakes. by fakes, i think he means these are modern replicas and not true antiques.
where did you find those ararebo?