Japanese Horse Sword

Highly versatile, the Tachi even more so than the modern Katana design was revered as both a Japanese cavalry sabre and a formidable infantry saber. 

The most valuable part of any sword is its blade, with this folded steel Katana blade certainly forming a high core standard of this fully functional and battle ready sword saber. 

Forged with folded steel, which is a mixture of 1045 soft steel, 1060 high carbon steel, manganese spring steel and many more smaller portions of other steels. This mixture is then folded multiple times to remove impurities, creating many hundreds of individual steel layers, finally producing arguably the best sword-making steel available, a technique renowned for smithing Japanese Katana blades.

Further promoting perfection, is the very difficult process of clay tempering the blade. This process precisely facilitates hardening of the blade’s edge, while leaving the blade’s core and spine softer and thus resilient. Definitely a marker of advanced Japanese sword making technology and visibly identifiable on this sword’s blade. 

The beautiful brown-grain lacquered, hardwood scabbard, along with premium decorative fittings complement the blue Katana handle nicely. And the hardwood, wrapped with real stingray-skin leather & blue polyester cord form a traditional and very effective Japanese Samurai handle grip. 

This Tachi Katana is a beautiful and intricate piece of battle art. It’s highly collectable, ornamental, a pleasure to own and a formidable close quarters weapon of war. 

Key Features:

• Folded steel blade – unmatched razor sharp cutting edge, along with renowned blade resilience & elasticity. 
• Genuine clay tempered blade.
• Premium fittings, handle and scabbard materials. 
• Perfectly balanced & versatile Japanese long sword – powerful cutting & slashing weapon, with effective thrusting functionality. 
• Katana battle ready – fully functional and deadly sharpened Katana.
• Unique curved Katana – saber sword of the Japanese Samurai. 

Japanese Horse Sword Specifications:

• Note: Sword stand is NOT included, and is shown only for demonstration purposes.
• Overall Katana length: 104cm.
• Katana blade length: 71cm.
• Width of blade: 3.2cm.
• Blade thickness: 0.7cm.
• Handle length: 26cm.
• Blade material: Folded steel sword blade. 
• Tempering: Genuine clay tempered blade with visible Hamon. 
• Hardness: Core & spine 30 HRC; edge 60 HRC.
• Saya material (scabbard): Brown grain patterned, gloss lacquered hardwood + quality Sageo.
• Handle materials: Hardwood wrapped with genuine stingray-skin & blue polyester cord Ito (hand-wrap).
• Sword fittings material: Brass, and plated with silver & gold color gilding. 
• Tang: Full tang Katana. 
• Included: Sword bag, certification. 
• Item: Tachi Japanese sword.