Handmade Japanese Samurai Wakizashi Sword Folded Steel Clay Tempered Iron Tsuba —
Handmade Japanese Samurai Wakizashi Sword Folded Steel Clay Tempered Iron Tsuba. Meaning “side inserted sword” is one of the traditionally made Japanese swords (nihonto) worn by the samurai class in feudal Japan. The wakizashi has a blade between 30 and 60 cm (12 and 24 inch), with wakizashi close to the length of a katana being called o-wakizashi and wakizashi closer to tanto length being called ko-wakizashi. The wakizashi being worn together with the katana was the official sign that the wearer was a samurai or swordsman of feudal Japan. When worn together the pair of swords were called daisho, which translates literally as “big-little”. The katana was the big or long sword and the wakizashi the companion sword. Wakizashi are not necessarily just a smaller version of the katana; they could be forged differently and have a different cross section. The blade of this sword is made of. It is folded forged by. Layers of patterns(Jihada) are formed on the surface of the blade. The high-performance blade has very good toughness and does not deform when bent at 90 degrees. The hardness is as high as 60. Cutting the wire does not hurt the blade. It can be used in battle or for display. We would highly recommend it as a gift. Anyone would be thrilled to receive a gorgeous sword as a gift! OVERALL LENGTH: 78 cm / 30.7 inch BLADE LENGTH: 52 cm / 20.5 inch TSUKA LENGTH: 23 cm / 9 inch BLADE WIDTH: 3.2 cm / 1.26 inch BLADE THICKNESS: 0.7 cm / 0.28 BLADE CRAFT: fully hand forged, water quenching BLADE MATERIAL: T10 steel, folded forged by 15 times. Clay tempered, real hamon. BLADE SHAPE: Shinogidukuri NAKAGO: full tang KISSAKI: medium (chukissaki). TSUKA(HANDLE): hard wood core, Hineri maki MEKUGI: 2 bamboo pegs TSUKA-ITO: black synthetic silk wrapping cord SAMEGAWA: red genuine rayskin FUCHI / KASHIRA / MENUKI: alloy TSUBA(HAND GUARD): iron HABAKi & SEPPA: brass SAYA: glossy black lacquered scabbard with red & black specialized sageo. 1 sword with saya. (No display stand and other fittings along with). This means that the carbon steel is folded by 15 times to produce 32768 layers. The higher quantity of layers provides more unique and mystical hada patterns, which defines and displays the craftsman’s experience and knowledge of traditional metallurgy passed down from generation to generation. Only the utmost skilled bladesmiths (Toushyo) and polishers (Togi-shi) can bring out the beauty and life from the Shinsakuto live blade. During the forging process, all of the slags and impurities of the steel are burned off and folded forged to an uncompromised strength with an sharp cutting edge. The final carbon content is 1% and the hardness is an impressive HRC 60 on the Rockwell Scale. This high quality blade can easily cut through tatami straw mats or bamboo for Tameshigiri or Batto-do use. Before being quenched, a special clay mixture can be applied onto the blade to harden the edge and obtain different hardness on the blade. The clay mixture was a special recipe and considered a crucial trade secret, guarded protectively by sword making masters. It would contain such things as feathers, powdered bones, grass, etc. And would be applied to the edge of the blade before being quenched. During quenching, a chemical reaction between the clay mixture and the hot steel occurs during the sudden temperature drop and carbon is fed into the blade in high amounts, creating an extremely tough edge. A clay hardened blade can only be quenched in water, thus increasing the defect rate even more. Another way for clay tempering is to apply clay along the blade but let edge exposed. Thus, while quenching the blade into water, the uncovered edge will cool down suddenly, but the rest of blade will cool down slowly. Such differential temperature change results in the different hardness of the blade. So the edge is tough enough to cut, where the back of blade is soft /flexible enough to absorb the impact during cutting. Such quenching process usually will leave beautiful wavy tempered line on the blade, as known as “hamon” in Japanese swords term. International Buyers – Please Note. Please contact with us before you leave feedback. We will try our best to solve the problem for you, thank you. Sometimes, you may not get our reply immediately due to the time difference among each country. However, please be assured that we’ll strive to reply you as soon as possible once we got your messages. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Knives, Swords & Blades\Swords & Sabers\Asian\Japanese”. The seller is “moranguoji2015″ and is located in this country: CN. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Type: Wakizashi
- Tang: Full
- Handle Material: Wood
- Blade Material: Damascus Steel
- Theme: Samurai
- Dexterity: Right-Handed
- Edge: Single, Curved
- Handedness: Single-Handed
- Brand: SJ SHI JIAN
- Country/Region of Manufacture: China
- Color: Black
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Style: Japanese
Categorised as: handmade
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