A Japanese sword is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as the Yayoi period (1000 BC – 300 AD), ...

The Japanese sword, domestically known as Katana, has always been a part of over a thousand years of Samurai's legacy. What initially took as Samurai's ...

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The Tachi is among the traditional Japanese swords or nihonto worn by the Samurai during feudal Japan. The Tachi sword was very efficient by the use of cavalry.

The Katana was the primary weapon carried by the Samurai of Feudal Japan. The Katana sword is a single edge curved blade with a handle that can accommodate 2 ...

Japanese smiths traditionally use tama-hagane, steel produced in a tatara smelter from iron-rich sand. Modern smiths making Japanese swords in the traditional ...

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Katana (かたな in Hiragana) is a Japanese sword, the blade is curved with a cutting edge and it measures more than 24 inches (60cm). The Katana was used by the ...

Katana. The most iconic and well-known of all the Samurai swords; the katana is distinguished by its long blade and handle that is made to accommodate two hands ...

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The samurai sword or samurai katana dates to the Japanese Edo Period. The curved blade and long grip symbolizes the samurai class. View our swords for sale!

In modern times the most commonly known type of Japanese sword is the Shinogi-Zukuri katana, which is a single-edged and usually curved long sword traditionally ...

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What is a katana? The katana is a Japanese sword used by Samurai, an aristocratic warrior class in feudal Japan. It has a curved, single-edged blade that is ...

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The Japanese unit of measurement equaling 30.3cm (11.93 inches). A tanto measures less than 1 shaku, a wakizashi measures between 1 and 2 shaku, and a katana is ...

The typical sword of that period is the tachi. It is somewhat longer but otherwise quite similar to the later katana. Many katanas, in fact, were made by ...

Each traditional Japanese sword can take over a year to forge and is considered a work of art. Here's why.

Japanese swords (日本刀) are a generic term for swords forged in the originally developed way in Japan. They are classified as Katana (Tachi, Uchigatana), ...

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What Are The Types of Samurai Swords? · Tachi – Used during the Koto period, these Japanese swords were distinguished by a curved blade handle, ...

Masters of the killing stroke, each samurai had a collection of swords: a katana, the long sword, and a wakizashi, the short sword. Think of it ...

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When I list swords I use Japanese terminology, primarily because there aren't any English words for most of it. If you are relatively new to Nihonto or ...

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The most well known Japanese sword is the katana. This curved long sword only has one blade, and was used by samurai during the 15th century and beyond. Other ...

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Tamahagane, which is the raw material for Japanese swords, is a steel made of iron sand with a low level of impurities. The tamahagane used for sword blades is ...

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The functional Japanese sword comes in the full length katana, the mid-length wakizashi sword, as well as the short tanto. The tanto and wakizashi were the ...

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The katana was the sword favoured by the samurai, as it also represented their social status. Indeed, they were the only ones allowed to carry such weapons.

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Katana (刀) is the most well known of the traditionally made Japanese swords. In the feudal period of Japan, Samurais used to wear them as a protection as well ...

The Katana is the longest of the samurai swords. It was typically yielded with a two hand grip and was usually the first to be drawn in battle. The Wakizashi ...

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The uchigatana is what we generally think of nowadays as the Japanese sword. In the Edo Period (1603-1868), laws were established to restrict sword ownership by ...

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At the end of World War II, an estimated three million swords left Japan in the hands of veterans. Sword collecting soon became highly popular in the Japanese ...

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A samurai was recognized by his carrying the feared daisho, the 'big sword, little sword' of the warrior. These were the battle katana, the 'big ...

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Japanese history and mythology are full of amazing weapons, but temost famous type of weapon in Japan, however, is the sword.

Samurai swords of exceptional quality and history are considered Tenka Goken swords. Many of them are associated with mythological stories.

Even at the risk of upsetting Japanese sword fans, we're cutting deep into history. Were zanbato swords ever real or they're manga ...

The only downside is that when I wear the sword, it does take me longer to get ready for work in the morning. Donning my entire ceremonial samurai armor ...

A 1969 documentary goes inside a samurai sword workshop to explore the craft and history behind the iconic Japanese weapon.