Talk:Magari Yari/@comment-98.167.220.52-20151029024225/@comment-32172734-20190525162539

According to Wikipedia, it's called curved spear because the two blades around the "central lance" are supposed to be curved. This clearly isn't the case here, so it should be named by its alternate name, jūmonji yari. When the central lance points up, the spear looks like the hanzi character for the number 10, hence the name jū(ten)monji(character).