Tatara - The Making of Tamahagane

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10 жыл бұрын

An older feature video showcasing the Shimane Tatara in Japan. Abe Sensei still led things back then and Kihara is featured as his protege.
The video is great because it shows just how much work is involved to actually produce the base material to any Japanese sword and helps provide insight into why its so revered.

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@Chickenassable 6 жыл бұрын

No captions or translation. Still love it. Beautiful art work. Team work. And craftsmanship. Banzai

@alexscott730 4 жыл бұрын

Tamahagane.Probably the coolest sounding japanese word out there.👍😎

@lindaterrell5535 3 жыл бұрын

The beauty of the Katana is how it’s made.

@brucefelter1335 Жыл бұрын

Amazing process!!!

@simonc4764 Жыл бұрын

I have some tamahagane from NBTHK back when he was in charge. They call the smelter a "Dragon" and the steel "Dragon's Egg".

@jaimegiral596 11 ай бұрын

This intro is legendary!🔥

@davidfaith8956 5 жыл бұрын

Thousands of years of knowledge and experience for a lump of bloom steel, what an amazing world we live in.

@jonajo9757 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, it was a 5th century furnace. Just a demonstration of historical smelting technology.

@gigimusu3958 4 жыл бұрын

It's a marvellous japan prodigy procedure. Art of metallurgy

@robsonf6683 2 жыл бұрын

These are master Alchemists.

@jeremygomez7924 8 жыл бұрын

the size of that bloom o.o such a pity this video doesnt have english subs tho

@lebommjohnson8101 7 жыл бұрын

Much fun to watch, but a bit difficult for us uneducated Americans to follow when it's all in Nihongo. English subtitles would be a big help.

@VenturiLife 8 жыл бұрын

Huge amount of labour and technique to create a single bloom.

@spartan6262 7 жыл бұрын

shades2 i think quality should never be compromised, no matter how much effort it involves.

@titan133760 5 жыл бұрын

Iron sand is quite a finnicky material to work with

@outsideiskrrtinsideihurt699 Жыл бұрын

It’s a massive bloom compared to the small lump most other bloomeries produce

@mbm2355 3 жыл бұрын

*Enable Closed Captions. Click Settings > Subtitles > Autogenerated > English*

@tgspiri 8 жыл бұрын

hi can i learn these traditional methods somewhere in europe, or do i have to go to Japan? Thank you.

@IAMDRMERVRENBARRON 8 жыл бұрын

+Ymus Anon Yes and No, This exact method?, no, But one that is exactly the same in terms of what it makes and the physics behind it?, Yes, they've been around since iron has been smelted. You'll want to look for bloomery smelting.

@Goldenthegr8 3 жыл бұрын

There r many videos of procedures of making katana.. but yes u have to goto japan because the iron which they use to make this tamahagane is only found in a very small region in japan.