Japanese sword making ceremony (part 3 of 3) 刀 関

The final spark flying part of this ceremony, shot back on 2nd Jan '07.
The steel is folded and layered to remove impurities, to make a strong, good looking sword.

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• making
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• samurai
• ceremony
• forging
• forge
• seki
• katana
• japnese
• 刀
• 関

[kensei64]

WoW!

Amazing,thank you very much for sharing!

[NightUlf]

And thank you for your kind words.

It was something that I had to see, and thought that others may find interesting too. And to share it so they can witness the process.

[allgoo19]

Thanks, I found it.

Thing they put on looking like dirt is actually straws. They do it to increase the contents of carbon in the steel, says so other videos I watched.

[NightUlf]

Glad you found it ok.  Thanks for adding the info.

[soobeng]

I agree with you.

[kaisermuto]

Each work place have one small shrine you saw this VIDEO. They pray for what they can make genuine perfect sword. In big factory also there exist small shrine for products. Japan god DOGMA is only for clear and genuine.The monk pray every thing

is going tobe clean and genuine. The blacksmith pray to the shrine shelf , as his job will be better skill . All Japanese think as well as the blacksmith in their work.

[razzerkatana]

so cool damnit! hope this crafting art will be passed on and on and on

[TheMagicalwispers]

I find it fascinating that they would wear white cloths doing this. Is it some sort of pride thing? Not getting their white cloths dirty white doing this?

[blueingreentrain]

is it true that the purpose of this ceremony was to pass on specific details to do with the making of the sword to the next generation of sword makers at a time when the Japanese had no writing system of their own with which to record the intricacies of this process?

I imagine there would be some religious significance too, but could anyone confirm this?

[TokerMate]

I have seen two different videos of these people making "swords" but both of them the end result looked like this, it looks nothing like a sword.. more a square steel bar with a larger steel clump at the end?

anyone explain what the fuck the deal is?

[shin1300]

that cling sound was amazing

[themellowdragon17]

lol The end.....It isnt even a sword... not even remotely resembling one.... I hope those people didnt have to pay to get in. lol.

[DARIVSARCHITECTVS]

That is really interesting. What's truly amazing is how these techniques were developed to such a fine art over centuries.

[Cstrife234]

Yes, but it's not boric acid flux, or other western flux. It's made from liquid ash and straw.