How Is a Katana Made?

Our Genuine Katana are crafted with great effort, passion, and soul in traditional Japanese handwork. From the traditional forging of the blade to the hand-carved real wood saya, with buffalo horn elements and real ray skin.

How Is a Katana Made?

On our website www.Katanzo.us, you can find katana in various price ranges and qualities. The processing, materials and types of steel are crucial factors. The production of our katana always involves traditional Japanese blacksmithing and elaborate handcrafting.

Thanks to our close cooperation with the sword smithy “Zhengshi Sword” – one of the largest katana forges with over 20 years of experience in the Japanese forging art – we can offer our customers high quality Japanese katana at affordable prices.

Traditional Japanese Forging

In the traditional production of a Japanese samurai sword, the exact temperature, the cooling time, the steel and the folding technique, the exact processing of the blade, the clay tempering and many other points play a decisive role to ultimately obtain an original, detailed Samurai sword. So the correct forging technique is enormously crucial for a high quality katana. Our sword smiths have been skilled in traditional Japanese forging for 20 years. The result is a robust, flexible, razor sharp and beautiful samurai sword that is extremely close to the katana from feudal Japan.

How to Recognize a Real Katana?

By a real katana we do not mean an antique katana from the feudal period of Japan, but a katana forged in the traditional Japanese manner. These are finely handcrafted from a full tang blade. The blade is tempered in clay creating the typical hardening pattern (hamon) on the blade of the katana. The tsuka (handle) is covered with ray skin or shark leather so that the winding (ito) on the handle does not slip. After further elaborate steps, the polishing and grinding, the finished katana is completed with a real wood saya (scabbard) made of hardwood and buffalo horn.