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With its 680mm blade, 280mm tsuka, and 970mm overall length (1030mm with sheath), this katana is perfect.It is made of the HWS-2S steel (proprietary Hanwei steel) that is supposedly designed to deliver a good balance between edge retention and durability. Think how jealous you’re friends will be when you tell them you got your bamboo katana on TrueKatana. If you touch the back of the katana with your hand, or if you have dripped acidic liquid on the blade, you need to wipe it clean with a clean cotton cloth before spraying maintenance oil again.

It features fine details, such as a metallic black painted tsuba guard for a different image of the blade. Some schools cover the entire bamboo in the sleeve and add a tsuba, like Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū does. This katana has a sharpened blade with Fuller,a royal blue braided handle with a white ray skin cloth underneath, on which is fixed a black Komainu (Guardian Lion from Japanese culture), a silver and gold guard (Tsuba) decorated with flowers and a beautiful blue lacquered wooden sheath (Saya).This also makes shinai popular in producing movies and television shows; a prop shinai with a thin metal covering can look similar to a metal sword, while allowing cinematic, showy strikes that are nevertheless fairly safe to perform. We send our katana via our certified safe and reliable international courier to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and if by any chance our katana is not delivered for any reason, we will fully refund the amount you paid!

The handle is covered with a black glossy paint, surrounded by a white nylon rope carefully braided. The earliest use of a bamboo weapon to train with instead of a sword is credited to Kamiizumi Nobutsuna (1508-1572? Of course all the blade are traditional clay tempered and the created Hamon is appearing due to the hand polishing with imported Japanese stones. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In kendo competitions that follow the FIK rules, there are regulated weights and lengths for the use of shinai.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.