Editing Jitte (section)

==History==
In feudal Japan, it was a crime punishable by death to bring a sword into the ''[[shōgun]]''{{'}}s palace. This law applied to almost everyone, including the palace guards. Due to this prohibition, several kinds of non-bladed weapons were carried by palace guards. The jitte proved particularly effective and evolved to become the symbol of a palace guard's exalted position.<ref>[http://www.vancouverjujitsu.org/html/jutte.html Jutte (Ju-Te): The "Power-of-Ten-Hands" Weapon]</ref>

In Edo-period Japan, the jitte was a substitute for a badge, and it represented someone on official business. It was carried by all levels of police officers, including high-ranking samurai police officials and low-rank [[samurai]] [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] officers (called ''okappiki''{{citation needed|date=July 2022|reason=okappiki were not samurai, or even official police.  They were only lent jitte if a situation called for it.}} or ''doshin'').<ref>Stephen Turnbull, ''The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War'', p.113</ref><ref>Don Cunningham, ''Taiho-Jutsu: Law and Order in the Age of the Samurai'', Tuttle Publishing, 2004; p.65</ref> Other high-ranking samurai officials carried a jitte as a badge of office,<ref>Serge Mol, ''Classical weaponry of Japan: special weapons and tactics of the martial arts'', pp.77–78</ref> including hotel, rice and grain inspectors (''aratame'').<ref>Cunningham, p.72</ref><ref>William E. Deal, ''Handbook to life in medieval and early modern Japan'', pp.166–167</ref> The jitte is the subject of the [[Japanese martial arts|Japanese martial art]] of ''[[jittejutsu]]''.<ref name="Mol">Serge Mol, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzIXkFec0e8C&dq=juttejutsu.&pg=PA80 ''Classical weaponry of Japan: special weapons and tactics of the martial arts''], Kodansha International, 2003</ref>