Ryan Sword Tamahagane Katana Japanese Sword Hazuya Jizuya RYAN1180 for Sale

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Ryan Sword Tamahagane Katana Japanese Sword Hazuya Jizuya RYAN1180 For Sale

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Ryan Sword Tamahagane Katana Japanese Sword Hazuya Jizuya RYAN1180:
$1799.99

Item Introduction

Tamahagane, which in Japanese literally means \"jewel steel\" or \"precious steel\", is a type of steel made in the Japanese traditional way. Tamahagane is made by smelting iron sand in a clay furnace called \"tatara\" and mixing it with charcoal to produce steel with various carbon content. This very laborious process takes as much as 3 days. After the smelting process, the tatara is broken and the steel bloom or \"kera\" is broken and swordsmiths segregate and collect the steels with various carbon contents.

Making a katana from tamahagane requires high level of expertise from the swordsmith. Swordsmiths will laminate the different types of steel collected from the kera to create a sword which has a hard edge, soft core and springy sides.

Ryan1180 is a katana or more specifically a handachi with a blade made of Chinese tamahagane. A handachi or \"half-tachi\" is a blade with tachi style fittings on the tsuka but has a saya that of a katana. The blade of this sword is hazuya-jizuya polished to bring out the beauty of the blade. It has a sugu or straight hamon and the hada of the blade can be clearly seen. The habaki, seppa, fuchi, menuki and kabuto-gane are all made of chromed brass while the tsuba is silver-plated. The tsuka is made of hardwood and fully wrapped with one-piece genuine rayskin. The saya is made of hardwood and painted with high quality black piano painting. Black buffalo horns are used as koiguchi, kurikata and kojiri.

Overall Length : 103cm / 40.6\"Nagasa(Blade) : 71cm / 27.9\"Tsuka(Handle) : 27cm / 10.6\"Motohaba(width near habaki) : 3.15cmSakihaba(width near yokote) : 2.3cmSori(Curve) : 1.9cmKasane(thickness at habaki) : 7.5mmSakikasane(thickness at yokote) : 3mmBlade : Chinese TamahaganeSaya Material : Hardwood+Buffalo HornHandle Material : Hardwood+Genuine RayskinTsuba : Copper plated with silver

Notes:
1) The swords are 100% handmade, so specification varies slightly from sword to sword. We appreciate your understanding.