Maravilloso!!! Siempre lo digo las artesanías del mundo son un arte, pero ustedes los japoneses están a otro nivel!!! Saludos de un herrero desde España!!
I traveled to England many years ago. There, in Oxford, was the Institute of Japanese Culture. Inside was a display case with genuine Japanese swords, all stripped down from their handles, hilts, and fittings, on loan for display. They had a sword in there made around the 1100's A.D. It looked like a beautiful arc of razor-sharp, polished steel. Not a spot of rust on it! Incredible!
Imagine being in the Samurai era and you need to sharpen your Samurai in your free time, or you'll disappoint your ancestor if it's not sharp enough to cut your opponent's soul in half.
I saw a process somewhere else, after polishing the sword fully, the honemaster grinds the very edge with a slightly coarser stone to make the cutting edge kinda like a saw's tooth in microscopic sense to give the sword a better tameshigiri performance. What is that method called?
The Komanagura is incredible. Although that looks like soft Nakayama Narutake Hazuya. Which can be used instead of Uchigumori Hazuya. It could be Arashiyama Shin Jizuya also. Which would provide a clearer less cloudy Hadori.
That was beautiful to watch a craftsman bringing a rusty blade back to life, old skills should be kept as modern skills do not match a master of the craft. all over the world old traditions are lost never to come back. keep those skills alive arigato gozaimasu.
I understand the tradition of using natural stones, but with the technology out there, the synthetic stones are becoming superior to the natural stones. Once the natural stones are extinct then what? It's just a matter of time that all will be using synthetic! Just an insight from one round eyed guy! Kinitchiwa.
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