I adore good Nihonto. The beauty of the hamon, on a crane-neck katana (unokubi zakura), is a lovely thing. All of my katana can be broken down into constituent parts

Love this, my guard has 4 extra pieces on my katana. I was told that the village where it was constructed does not exist anymore.

Hello from Japan. This sword was made in 1992 by a swordsmith [Miike-ju Kunitada] in Kyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.　It is a good investment that will surely appreciate in value in the future.

A fitting name would be Scud, a name for a low flying cloud.

Beautiful Katana friend.

Another great video of in-depth explanation. Thank you so much for making these!

That's a really beautiful sword especially for handmade and such a recent time and not an ancient time. I would love to own a Hand Forged real katana but they're too expensive maybe one day I'll be able to.

Oh! The hammer marks on the tsuba are likely there because of a loose fit around the nakago. It’s a way of spreading the material to make it tighter instead of restarting the guard.

I have a very similar Kunitada! Mine is from 6/2000. Different koshirae, but very similar blade and Hamon, can visually tell they are sisters. I'm in contact with a dude in Japan with a Kunitada from 2008, very similar as well. Imagine 4gen consistency!!

Such an underrated channel you've started me on my journey for self betterment through martial arts....I wish your channel could get the recognition it deserves bc it's truly warranted...just wanna say thank you and I know in the beginning having a KZfaq channel is a challenge but I hope and pray opportunities and avenues open up for you so it doesn't become a struggle in anyway....I truly am thankful for ppl like yourself and the knowledge transfer thank you again

Thanks for sharing! It’s beautiful!!

Very beautiful piece of artwork, mr. Norcross

Beautiful peace of art.

Thank you for making this video! I appreciated learning the vocabulary of all the pieces and the dimension. I’m about to start my first katana build and this has helped me a lot.

This was awesome Sensei. Please do more of these

Absolutely beautiful..

Awesome, lucky to own such a treasure.

Simply beautiful 🙏🏻

One small point, and this is so that we remain respectful to the Japanese culture and language, when we say Tsuba, the "t" is not silent.

Amazing Todd, Thank you for sharing this, as you know I'm fascinated by the katana, this was an awesome explanation of an incredible weapon.

....WOW!!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT EXPLANATION, AND DEMONSTRATION!!! FYI: THOSE STRONG HAMMER MARKS, ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE TSUBA, ARE DONE, TO HELP TO ADJUST THE CONSTRICTION AS NEEDED, TO FIT IT MORE TIGHTLY AGAINST THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE BLADE, WHERE THEY MEET.

FANTASTIC VIDEO !

The hammer marks on the tsuba is where they deformed the iron so it would fit tight to the blade.

"Akuma o taiji suru mono" should be the name of your sword. That's what I looks like to me😎👍

Quite the beautiful video

Nicely done. like the history lesson behind it!

Love your videos also,very informative 👍

The music at the back is Anatolian NEY sound so perfect. Thank you

such a beauty

Excellent content! 👍🏼👍🏼

Love this lesson

beautiful

Love your videos

Great vid. I have recently started forging Japanese style edge weapons. Love the style and precision. Working on a Tanto now which I actually made like a mini Wakizashi since the Tanto has a guard. I have twin Wakizashi's forged to shape and ready to go. I made the Tanto as a practice run before I started on the larger short swords. Again, thx for the info. I notice the spine side of the tang is straight and the other side has the taper, I tapered both sides of the tang on all 3 weapons. I think I will forge the spine side straight from now on as this will help when carving and fitting the scabbard and handle as this will make keeping everything inline easier. Forge On!!!

beatiful

Amazing Sir!! Oss!!! Respect from Pakistan Peshawar

Incredible

Thank you, that's sure an interesting and educational talk through for the katana. I was a bit nervous seeing you pointing and dragging the metallic pen / object on the blade.

I love how you have so much knowledge about swords

Amazing. Really like your story telling style. Just starting to learn about these pieces.

Excellent review 🤝👍😎

Soo beautiful

Dear sensei, Thank you for this information. I happen to have similar characteristic effects on my sword, that wooden dowel ,and diamond pattern woven and guard has round dragon plus at very end of the sword as well. Again I really appreciate your content and wish you the very best. ⚔ Thank you for putting out this info, I happen to have same characteristic of sword that you just showed specially that handle area where woolen like clothes wrapped as they were weaving the diamond shaped flower I believe as you've described in this clip

So cool🥺

Sir,you said not historian,but you explain very well like a samurai maker expert.

definitivamente las KATANAS son las armas mas bellas del MUNDO, forma, detalles y terminaciones delicadamente diseñadas, en verdad hermosas

Very beautyful..I like katana.from japan

Strength, danger and beauty. Three combinations in one sword.

Thank you sir 😊 from Pozorrubio pangasinan Philippines

I too was a collector and I never handled a sword without wearing gloves. I only collected old swords but I did have a Suisinshi Masahide which came from the Imperial Palace. About 1900, so fairly recent.

Thanks !

Great.

You named it yourself...Swings Like There is No Tomorrow.

Excelent!!!! 🥋🙇🏻‍♂️

Thanks for showing us your nihonto, I aspire to someday own such a work of art myself.

The hammer marks on the handle side serve a simular function of a gem setting in jewelry. However it is to center the guard on the blade. Or the channel was filed to far and an adjustment was needed.

Nice video

Art work

Stunning, keren...👍👍👍

Great videos! Thank You for sharing so much knowledge! Would You dare to use this sword to cut something like tamati mats or will it scratch?

I know im 2 years late but, I recommend the name "Jinran Maru" for the sword, if you haven't already picked a name for it. It is a name from a game, but I feel like its appropriate for this sword considering its speed.

Awesome hamon and koshirae

Mostly the 作-tsukuri is read when there is katakana or hiragana on the on the first next of it here is the readibg for the signature 三池住國忠作之-Miike jū Kunitada Kore o Saku(This was made by Kunitada resident of Miike) 平成四年九月吉日-Heisei yon nen kyū gatsu kichi jitsu(Lucky day of September 1992)

thatss awesomeee

Sir that is truly a piece of art,thank you for this beautiful video, ( remember don't clean the nakago - tang! Let it turn black)shinogi zukuri (you can see the yokote it has a chu kissaki, it's probably a kobuse, that will be a very fast sword! 🏯🇯🇵

Good video

Your nihonto is a beautiful sword.

Phenomenal blade! Any truly forged japanese sword is of high value these days..

Not bad for demonstration video you did a find job there was a couple mistakes but not to many people can talk about sword quite like you did I applaud you well done 👍 I belong to San Francisco sword Society . Like I said not too many people have the knowledge of the sword you seem like a nice and decent person stay safe Like to see more videos

I collect swords mostly samurai my favourite but do own some wilkinsons dress swords as a Black belt in Shotokan karate that was involved in a motor accident i cant train so this is my interest this video is Great

I have a katana that I bought some years back. After watching this video I decided to take a look at the tang. I was surprised to see it only had writing on one side.

Very relaxing video. It's great to see some more detailed video about particular sword. I self-study japanese blades (very amateur) and it's difficult to find similar video especially with real nihonto. One question,....what is that different part of steel on ura side. It's perpendicular to ha and it appears on 10:19 . Is it a steel flaw or the blade just wasn't wiped yet? It almost has the color of hamon, but going from ha up to bo hi. Thank You. Subscribed. :)

The guard is dented around the blade hole to fit it tighter to the blade. It's like a staking that prevents rattles. They used a punch to peen it.

Where did you get the nice sword racks on the wall?

吉日 reads as kichijitsu or kichinichi meaning one of good/fortunate days define in the calendar. You do anything you think important like marriage on a ‘lucky’ day if you care about 縁起, an ancient concept from India that has been Incorporated in Japanese lifestyle.

Pretty new blade

O-Yoroi Doshi are a specific class of nihonto made to pierce O-Yoroi, or great armor. Size can range from tanto or aikuchi length to large wakizashi and have exceptionally wide blades along the unsharpened spine, giving sufficient stiffness and durability for their task. The head of the Japanese Communist Party was assassinated with an O-Yoroi Doshi in the sixties by a Nationalist aligned student who rushed the podium, managing to stab the politician once in the abdomen and was tackled as he attempted a follow-up stab.

Great show!!! Could you possibly let us know how can we buy such real sword made in Japan?

AMEN BROTHER 🙏🙏🙏

Beautiful sword, the blade looks very similar to my Hanwei practical plus XL light..

Nice Nihonto

Have you tried to collect a sword from Yoshihara Yoshindo?? He's a world class master swordsmith and his famous sword is will known and on the museum. What a beautiful blade work, man it's so mesmerizing to see the Hamon, ok also recommend you to watch Ford Hallam's Tsuba metal works.

Notice how the bo-hi carries on right through to the nakago. This is traditional. Modern production katana don't do this; the only company I know that does that also is Huawei Swords.

What is that huuge mark half way down the sword? is that a snap repair?

The samurai never used that cleaning kit it actually came out way after the cleaning kit it's kind of a gimmick in a way except for the The Uchiko Ball which is used to strip oil off the blade. May I ask where you got that sword from? Very beautiful

❤️👍ENJOYED THE VIDEO, VERY NICE KATANA AND HISTORY. “SABATHIEL”

Knowing 50 konji is pretty damn good! Knowing that many phrases is quite a lot!👍

Blade name: Tamashī no heddā (meaning soul be-header)

I've got a sword like this,don't know much about it,I've translated 1906 is when it was made,two signatures on it with a date and place,made in the beginning of the showa period

I read/heard somewhere that the Habaki was also supposed to reinforce the blade where it went through the Tsuba (hand guard).

Wish there was sword experts in my area so I could go to as I have many questions.

Love it when you "nerd out", us nerds can watch for hours! I don't know how to translate into Japanese, not sure if that's how you name your swords, but how about "Petite Elegence" ? Love your collection and love the comment "I don't keep it at the dojo so you can't come break in and steal it" Haa!

I have two antique katana one is in full matching koshirae made during Kanbun Era early Edo (1660s) made by the bungo Takada school and the other one is in shirasaya made during Oei era early muromachi period by the Uda school

Mine is a 400yr old kunihiro fujiwara Edo forged katana. Rated tokubetsu hozon. My other is a very short wakizashi made by kagehira fujiwara which is around 300 years old, rated hozon.

Saya suka

Its a very nice sword to own but looks like its been used instead of preserved so will need a polish which removes metal and cost a lot when done properly by a traditionally trained togishi which is what this sword deserves. Choji hamon is clove leaf. I like the tsuba too. The hammer marks on the tsuba are to reduce the size of the hole so it fits the blade better.

Good name would be ChunChunmaru.

How much you paid for that amazing katana?

i noticed when you flashed the blade over the bandana it seemed to dissapear at the right angle, which is another quality to the blade done on purpose...

I just realized why those dents on the guard. Most likely put there to tighten any fitting.