Still very much a Ninja’s weapon, it was deployed as a Shinobi sword, a powerful underground Ninja-clan practicing the dark arts of Ninjutu, and so was famously used as Zatoichi’s sword, a fictional swordmaster of novels and film.
Easily concealed with its wooden handle & scabbard combination, the Shikomizue blade disappears into what essentially looks like a stick or staff, as any peasant old man or farmer of the period would carry through the streets or meadows.
The most valuable part of any sword is its blade, with this folded Damascus steel sword blade certainly forming a high core standard of this fully functional and battle ready combat sword.
Forged with folded Damascus 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.
The beautiful white, matching hardwood scabbard & handle material close seamlessly together, forming a sword stick. The hardwood handle acts as a simple, sturdy and maintenance free handle grip, which is not only effective for combat, but also presents in a clean traditional form.
This stick sword is a simple, unique and collectable piece of modern art. It’s a pleasure to own and a formidable close quarters weapon to use.
Key Features:
- Simple sword design – straight sword designed for cutting & thrusting.
- Single edge sword blade – primary cutting edge with full structural strength blade spine.
- Folded Damascus sword blade – unmatched razor sharp blade with excellent natural elasticity & resilience.
- Colored katana blade – unique and collectable red / blue electroplated blade.
- Matching handle & scabbard hardwood – concealed sword when sheathed.
- Battle ready and extremely deadly.
Shikomizue Specifications:
- Note: Stand in photos is for demonstration purposes only and NOT included.
- Overall Katana length: 103cm.
- Katana blade length: 71cm.
- Handle length: 26cm.
- Width of blade: 3.2cm.
- Blade thickness: 0.7cm.
- Blade material: Folded Damascus steel – red/blue electroplated.
- Saya material (scabbard): Hardwood.
- Handle materials: Hardwood.
- Tang: Full tang Katana.
- Weight 1.21kg (including scabbard weight).
- Item: Damascus steel Katana sword.