The Nine Red Scabbards was the name of a group of samurai who served as retainers to the late Kozuki Oden. This posse consisted of a number of youths drawn to the daimyo, who aided him during his ...

Paul Mortimer, who has created replicas of weapons found at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk - where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was discovered - said it probably attached a sword scabbard to a warrior's ...