The samurai
weapons in this category are the high end swords of the Hanwei forge and
suitable for both the practitioner and the collector.
In ancient
times, the technique of folding a katana blade was necessary to remove
the impurities in the Japanese steel (tamahagane), which was of a somewhat
poor quality. Today -since the quality of the steel is of a much higer
level- this traditional technique tend to be of cosmetic value only. All
of these folded katana does have a very attractive hamon and hada and
absolutely and a good balance. The kami katana may be a bit heavy to practise
Iaido and I do feel that it's more a collector item.
