Tying a sageo on the saya of your Katana isn’t that hard, a tutorial
January 16th, 2008 | by admin |Upon general request, we decided to make a tutorial on how to tie a sageo around the saya of your samurai sword. Now note that this is an ‘presentation’ knot and you won’t see it very often when martial artists are actually using their katana.
The sageo is that ‘piece of rope’ you can generally find on your saya (scabbard) and throughout it’s history , it served many different purposes :
- The original and most known way of using the sageo was to tangle it around the belt (obi) and saya so that the saya stayed where it was put in the belt without moving around when ‘drawing’ the sword
- Tying up the sleeves of the kimono before starting to ‘draw’ with the sword
- Tying up prisoners
- Actually I believe it was used to do all kind of ‘tying-up-things’
Concerning the tutorial, we made 4 loops on one side of the kurikata and 3 on the other side but you can also do 3+3, just use your creative spirit :d…it’s an decorative knot after all…
Good luck with your sageo and if you have any questions, just drop a comment here..
9 Responses to “Tying a sageo on the saya of your Katana isn’t that hard, a tutorial”
By Zane Dobbins on Jan 19, 2008 | Reply
thanks!!!! itsperfect!
By Till Bender on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply
Step by step. Very helpful guide. THANKS A LOT!!!
By Viks on Mar 23, 2008 | Reply
Fab instructions….Easy and Simple to carry out well pleased
By dustin on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
How the HECK DO YOU DO THIS DANG KNOT!!!!?
By Nic on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
Done it, Im well chuffed! thanks mate. The old one some how came loose and it was bugging me big time. Thanks to you its now sorted. Nice1 my son!
By admin on Apr 11, 2008 | Reply
My pleasure…any other tutorials you guys like to see here ?
Dave
By Shidoshi Spohn on Apr 28, 2008 | Reply
I loved this. The directions are simple and easy to follow. I have forwarded this site to my students. Now there is no reason for them to have untied sageos.
By Andy Brown on Jun 12, 2008 | Reply
Superb instructions! Many thanks for that. I’d been trying to redo that wrap for some time, but couldn’t work out the knots - so easy when somebody shows you how.
Cheers