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Eastern
Uchigatana
우치가타나 · 打刀
Muromachi to Edo period · Ships from Japan
A Japanese sword worn edge-up through the belt, with a navy cord and rayskin grip.
Navy silk cord is wrapped over white rayskin to leave diamond-shaped windows. Along the edge runs a wave pattern (hamon) made by clay-coated hardening. Shipped from the fictional Kyoto workshop “Shirakabe”.
Specifications
- Blade length
- 71 cm
- Overall length
- 101 cm
- Weight
- 1.15 kg
- Materials
- Tamahagane steel, rayskin, silk cord
- Edge
- Sharp (live blade)
Permit required · This is a live blade of 15 cm or longer. Owning it in Korea requires a permit from the local police.
Purchase
₩4,500,0004 left in stock
Estimated duties (for one)
Loading the duty rules.
Stories told
- 15th c.
The uchigatana, quick to draw on foot, spreads in place of the long tachi used on horseback.
- Edo period
Wearing a long and a short sword together (daishō) becomes the formal custom of the samurai.