#Sandals katana drawing skin#
What makes a genuine Japanese blade unmistakable is the hardening zone (hamon 刃文) created by special forging or hardening techniques,Īs well as (in koshirae 拵え) the handle (tsuka 柄) usually covered with ray skin or also shark skin (false ray leather) (samegawa 鮫皮) and usually artistically wrapped with silk ribbon. It bears great resemblance to the earlier Chinese Miao Dao and the swords of the northern Japanese Ainu. The katana evolved from the tachi 太刀 (long sword) in the 14th century and was traditionally used by Japanese samurai from the late 15th century (early Muromachi period), especially in combination (Daishō 大小, large-small) with the short wakizashi 脇指 (shōtō 小刀, short sword). This difference leads to a different fencing style. While the katana is usually wielded two-handed, the average saber is designed as a one-handed weapon. The biggest difference, however, is in the handling. The blade shape is similar to that of a saber, but the hilt (tang) - called a nakago in Japanese - is not curved against the cutting side as is often the case with the classic saber. The counterpart is the double-edged tsurugi (also called ken 剣). It denotes a particular curved sword shape with a single edge. The word katana is the kun reading of the kanji 刀, the on reading is tō, from Chinese dao. Weapons made today are also called shinken (真剣), "real sword". In Japanese common today, the term is also used as a general term for sword.
The katana ( Japanese 刀) is the Japanese long sword (Daitō 大刀).
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