Katana is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.
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11 Facts About Katana
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Katana can be known as dai or daito among Western sword enthusiasts, although daito is a generic name for any Japanese long sword, literally meaning "big sword".
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Katana is generally defined as the standard sized, moderately curved Japanese sword with a blade length greater than 60.
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Katana insisted that the bold and strong koto blade from the Kamakura period to the Nanboku-cho period was the ideal Japanese sword, and started a movement to restore the production method and apply it to Katana.
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Katana's popularity is due to his timeless exceptional skill, as he was nicknamed "Masamune in Yotsuya" after his disastrous life.
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Katana's works were traded at high prices and exhibitions were held at museums all over Japan from 2013 to 2014.
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Katana was especially enthusiastic about collecting sword mountings, and he collected about 3,000 precious sword mountings from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji period.
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Katana are traditionally made from a specialized Japanese steel called tamahagane, which is created from a traditional smelting process that results in several, layered steels with different carbon concentrations.
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Katana were used by samurai both in the battlefield and for practicing several martial arts, and modern martial artists still use a variety of katana.
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Katana forged by Hizen Tadayoshi I Azuchi-Momoyama period.
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