Katana Paper Crane

Enjoy Paper Crane Katana

Paper crane katana

The Paper Crane Katana is undoubtedly the highest quality level of Hanwei sword forging currently available.

The blade is forged from Hanwei's own Tamahagane steel, and the fittings reflect the atmosphere of Japanese theater. The katana's name comes from the art of paper folding ( origami ), and the paper cranes displayed adorn the striking
Tsuba and fuchi and kashira , which feature high-quality nanako (dotted backgrounds).

The menuki depicts mime masks, which are used equally in Japanese and Western theater.

The saya houses a kozuka , which is decorated with musical instruments from the theatre.

The origami theme also carries over to the extraordinary hand-woven sageo silk, which is the result of many hours of skillful work on the loom.

Tamahagane steel: This is produced by building and firing a traditional Japanese steel-smelting furnace, the tatara . This charcoal-fired furnace produces very pure steel from iron sand. The resulting kera (flower) of steel can be broken and separated into different pieces with varying carbon contents, from which the blade core and knife core are formed. The blade sheath can then be formed. The blade sheath is now forged and folded repeatedly to remove slag inclusions and voids. It is then forged around the blade core before the resulting piece is forged into a blade—traditionally referred to as kobuse making. Careful heat treatment, shaping, and subsequent polishing reveal the hada as well as the white particles of the hamon . The result of this process is a katana that is not only very popular with enthusiasts, its elegant appearance with collectors, but also an extremely functional blade that has a particularly hard edge thanks to its carbon-containing sheath and excellent strength and shock absorption thanks to its softer core.

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Special Features:
- Tamahagane steel blade
- Excellent hamon and fine polishing

Details:
- Blade material: Tamahagane steel
- Total length: approx. 99.7cm.
- Blade length: approx. 71.1 cm.
- Handle length: approx. 26cm.
- Weight: approx. 1042 g
- Center of gravity: approx. 10.3 cm in front of the guard
- Blade width at guard: approx. 3.1 cm
- Blade thickness at guard: approx.
- Blade thickness at tip: approx. 4 mm

Manufacturer's item number: sh2294

The above specifications may vary slightly from specimen to specimen.
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