Wakizashi

This sword is a beautiful, custom-built Osoraku wakizashi in aikuchi koshirae. It's name is Yamabushi, that means mountain warrior monks. Yamabushi sword was designed by Mr.Stacy Miller, and Ryansword made it in September 2018. Aikuchi is a type of Japanese sword mounting wherein there is no tsuba. The blade is an osoraku zukuri where the kissaki is more than half the entire blade length. The blade is made in honsanmai lamination with an edge made of 1095 steel for higher edge retention and the sides made of folded steel to give the blade a nice hada. It is clay-tempered and hazuya-polished to highlight the beautiful, natural hamon. The blade has a detailed, hand-engraved dragon horimono. The hourglass-shaped tsuka core is made of white hardwood and fully-wrapped with black-lacquered samegawa. The habaki is made of copper with a kanji engraving while the fuchi and kashira are made of blackened iron. The saya is made of hardwood with a unique oar-shaped tip and with a mitsudomoe design. Fuchi, kashira, koiguchi, kurigata, kojiri and Kaeritsuno are all made of real buffalo horns.

This sword can be customized as per customer's request.

Wakizashi are considered a samurai's side arm and supplemental weapon. It is effective weapon when fighting in confined spaces as typical Japanese dwellings had low ceiling. Samurai warriors often sleep with their wakizashi and carry them even when inside castles, residences unlike the katana that they sometimes had to leave to a servant. The use of the wakizashi though was not limited to the samurai as merchants, craftsmen and other individuals sometimes carry it for protection.

Ryan1276 is one of our high-end works, it has shinogi zukuri with niku blade in honsanmai lamination. The edge is made of 1095 high carbon steel and the sides made of folded 1060 steel. The blade is differentially-hardened with a beautiful, natural hamon and hada. The tsuka is made of hardwood, fully wrapped with one-piece genuine rayskin and black, synthetic silk ito. The saya is also fully wrapped with genuine, unpolished rayskin. Black buffalo horns are used as kojiri, koiguchi and kurigata. The tsuba, fuchi, kashira and menuki are copper with dragon motif.

This wakizashi is one of our special design products. The blade is made of 9260 sping steel and clay tempered, it’s hazuya polished so the area between hamon and back is white.  Its saya is covered in polished mother-of-pearl and shells, it gives a unique glow of random colors. The koiguchi,kurikata and kojiri is made of polished, black buffalo horn. The tsuba is made of folded steel, beautiful grains of the steel are visible. Fuchi and kashira are iron with silver embedded.

The blade is honsanmai lamination, 1095 high carbon steel is the cutting edge, folded steel is used as jacket steel. The blade is shinogiz zukuri with niku, it can be used to cut hard things such as bones and iron wire. It is clay-tempered with a natural hamon. The tsuka is made of hardwood, it's wrapped with genuine rayskin panels and synthetic silk ito. The saya is made of hardwood, partially wrapped with polished genuine rayskin. The kurigata, koiguchi and kojiri are made of real buffalo horns. The tsuba, fuchi and kashira are made of copper with silver plating. The sword is well-balanced and assembled tightly.