Yoda’s lightsaber was the personal lightsaber of Yoda, the last Grand Master of the Jedi High Council. In keeping with its owner’s stature, the green-bladed weapon had a shorter hilt and shorter blade, making it a shoto.
What made Yoda‘s lightsaber unique was its scaled-down size. Aside from that particularity, the weapon had a simple design, consisting of a studded chrome handle with black trim and an emitter shroud. It contained a kyber crystal that put forth a bright greenplasma blade.
Yoda’s lightsaber was originally created for the Star Wars Legends 1999 reference book Star Wars: Episode I The Visual Dictionary. It later made its first canonical appearance in the 2002 film Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, the second installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
The 2016 reference book Star Wars: Complete Locations depicts the lightsaber as being stored in a box in Yoda’s Hut by the time of the events of Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. However, the 2017 comic Darth Vader (2017) 1 states that it was destroyed during a celebration of the eradication of the Jedi Order. When asked about this, writer Charles Soule mused that perhaps Yoda built a new one, that he had more than one or that Darth Sidious built a fake to make a point. Lucasfilm Story Group‘s Matt Martin then stated that they are aware of that but that it isn’t an error as Yoda likely had more than a few lightsabers during his lifetime. The Book of Boba Fett later featured an intact lightsaber owned by Yoda during the War for Tatooine.