Tonbo Katana Limited Edition

The maintainance kit has everything in it which you need for the must of care for your handmade sword. Comes with oil and powder. Oil is used to prevent the rust of the sword. Oil makes a film of the oil between the sword body and the air, and it prevents the oxidization of the sword body. Oil dries in about some time. Therefore, reprint it in the new oil once in a month. The thing which made a whetstone powder-shaped is being packed into the Uchiko. White powder appears from the Uchiko when a sword body is struck with the Uchiko. There are two use purposes. The Uchiko removes the old oil which sticks to the sword body. Furthermore, the Uchiko beautifies the surface of the sword. Nuguigami: The Nuguigami is not just regular paper, it is high quality thick japanese paper for cleaning swords. It is used for wiping out old oil and wiping out the Uchiko. The Mekuginuki is used to remove the Mekugi of the sword. The Mekuginuki can remove the Mekugi with the sharp part. In order to use the Mekuginuki for removing the Mekugi, the hammerhead part can be removed from the rest of the Mekuginuki. How to take care for your sword: How to take care of the sword after an Iaido practices or Tameshigiri will be explained with this topic. Take care of the sword after the practices always. If the care for the sword is neglected, a sword rusts in the sweat of the hand. Face an edge toward the top, and pull out a sword slowly from the sheath. Then, be careful not to damage a sheath. Hold the sword pulled out with your left hand. Then, remove old oil and dust from the sword with the Nuguigami. Put a Nuguigami on the Mune of the sword when wiping the sword, and wipe the sword toward the top from the bottom. Pat a sword body with the Uchiko. Powder equally on the both sides of the sword body. Then, wipe the white powder with the new Nuguigami which is different from the paper used some time ago. Repeat this handle, and remove the blurs of the oil completely. Apply new oil to the sword body, and put away a sword to the sheath. Put the oiling paper on the Mune of the sword when oiling the sword, and oil the sword toward the top from the bottom. Don't oil a sword in quantity very much. Oil equally the both sides of the sword body. If the care for the sword is finished, put a sword in the sword bag, and keep it. Keep a sword in the place where it dries in the shade. How to take care of the sword of this topic isn't perfect. Therefore, remove the hilt once in three months, and care for the tang (Nakago) and so on.

This steel Katana hanger provides an economical and sturdy solution for displaying any Japanese-style sword on a wall. Supplied in nickel-plated finish, the hanger can be arranged to display the sword either horizontally or at an angle and is supplied with mounting. It has plastic-covered hooks, to avoid damage to Saya finishes. Simple and unobtrusive, this hanger is designed to focus attention on the piece being displayed. Made by Hanwei.

The Tonbo wakizashi is specially handmade and forged in the Yamato Nihonto tradition, which is considered to be the oldest tradition in Japanese swordmaking. Hand forged, polished and sharpened. This forging method and with the use of premium quality, high carbon Japanese steel makes it an extremely sharp with sanmai traditional structure. This is a high end wakizashi that will appeal to the discriminating collector or serious practitioner. The tonbo wakizashi features a genuine same'Japanese black silk Tsuka Ito and hand made silver Koshirae. The Tonbo tsuka Japanese Wakizashi can be completely disassembled for full maintenance. It is a fully functional Japanese Wakizashi, not a replica (notice from real hada and real hamon which occured from quenched technic and sanmai structure). Featuring a hand forged and folded Sanmai high carbon steel blade with 1024 layers, this is among the upper echelon of wakizashi for the sword collector, silver fittings with a dragonfly decorative as well as black silk over black rayskin wrapped tsuka round out this stunning wakizashi. Special Features: * Hand forged and folded high carbon steel blade (1024 layers) * Clay tempered and water quenched blade (HRC 60-35) * Hand polished with excellent hada * Hand sharpened * Blackened copper tsuba with silver dragonfly hand engraved inlay on tsuba with fireblow technic * Silver seppa and habaki * Silver dragonfly menuki * Copper fuchi and kashira with silver dragonfly motif * Premium black Japanese silk and black rayskin wrapped tsuka * Dark purple matte finish saya with silver kurikata and couple of silver dragonfly inlay, premium knitted between gold and black sageo and silver sayajiri with dragonfly * Fully funcitional Limited Edition Run - 100 total with Limited Edition Certificate included. Item number 11729 is the suitable Katana! Details: Blade length: approx. 69 cm Tsuka: approx. 20 cm Overall length: approx. 80 cm Weight: approx. 700 g

This special sword display can be used for one samurai sword. A tanto may be placed in front of the stand on red velvet. An alternative to a tanto would be a maintenance kit. The stand itself features red velvet as well to protect the sword. Details: Height: 21 cm Depth: 17 cm Width: 42 cm front rack: 20x8 cm wide