The facture of the Japanese sword.

A Japanese sword is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan.
The most commonly known type is the katana is a single-edged and usually curved long sword which was traditionally used by samurai from the 1400s onwards.

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Howto & Style

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• 가타나
• Katana
• Japanese
• sword

[namnhan2003]

Simply awesome....what a craftman...hopefully he has some students to follow his path.

[KaiNogard]

@druisteen1 i do, a little bit.. i study japanese language, im learning how to speak.. but there is a big.. no.... huge difference between japanese and chinese..

and in this video, its definitely japanese

[KaiNogard]

@druisteen1 its japanese!!

[druisteen1]

@KaiNogard

you speak japanese ?

[KaiNogard]

@druisteen1 japanese. you can hear them speak, its japanese. he even says "tamahagane" its the steal they make katana from. pure steal that is purely made for its purpose.

[druisteen1]

it's a japanese or a chinese ?

[druisteen1]

nice job

but prefer viking sword

[sc00ny]

Is this 'oroshigane' ?

[MicroMachines83]

Nice video, thanks!!!

Yes, you're absolutely right, it's the "ningen kokuho thosho" Miyairi Akihira (later Yukihira).

Verry interesting is his use of old scrap steel in combination with tamahagane...that needs a great amount of experience and is rarely seen today.

Best regards

Mirco 5*

[jsvalz]

Very nice and informative video. The swordsmith looks like the famous Miyairi Akihira, am I right?