Claws

are the primary weapons of many yōkai, as well as many other creatures in the Sengoku jidai; even ordinary animals that exist in the Modern era, such as Buyo possess claws.

Many yōkai and hanyō can use their claws to perform some of their signature attacks, such as InuYasha's Sankon Tessō and Sesshōmaru's Dokkasō.

Goraishi is considered to be a unique type of weapon as it can give its user "artificial" claws that can be charged with a powerful form of electricity. Suikotsu of the Shichinintai even uses a pair of gauntlets with that have been armed with tiger claws as his primary weapon.