Blue Katanas
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Hand-forged blue katanas with Damascus steel blades treated through controlled oxidation to achieve a deep ocean-blue finish. Each piece includes a matching scabbard, decorated tsuba and genuine rayskin handle wrap. Highly sought after by collectors seeking distinctive, display-worthy swords.
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Katana Abyss
$240DiscoverBelow ten thousand meters, sunlight never reaches. The creatures that live there have enormous eyes, or no eyes at all. The pressure would…
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Katana Shiranui (1060 Carbon Steel)
$199DiscoverThe shiranui is a luminous phenomenon that has appeared off the coasts of Kyushu on summer nights for centuries: tongues of light dancing…
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Katana Akebono (1060 Carbon Steel)
$199DiscoverAkebono, in Japanese, describes the exact moment when the night sky begins to lighten on the horizon: no longer night, not yet dawn. A…
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Katana Souun (1060 Carbon Steel)
$199DiscoverIn the classical texts of Chinese and Japanese landscape painting, souun is the great cloud that frames the peaks of sacred mountains: a…
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Katana Shimotsuki (1060 Carbon Steel)
$200DiscoverIn the traditional Japanese calendar, November was not simply called November: it was called shimotsuki, “the frost moon,”…
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Katana Mangetsu (1060 Carbon Steel)
$200DiscoverIn the Japanese lunar calendar, nights of mangetsu are dedicated to tsukimi: the contemplation of the full moon. Families offer white dango…
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Katana Kotone (1060 Carbon Steel)
$199DiscoverThe kotone is the sound of the koto, the thirteen-stringed horizontal harp that was for centuries the primary instrument of Japanese court…
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Katana Shirayuki (1060 Carbon Steel)
$240DiscoverShirayuki, literally “white snow,” is the Japanese term for freshly fallen snow that has not yet been walked on: a clean,…
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Katana Suzune (1060 Carbon Steel)
$199DiscoverThe suzune is the sound of small metal bells hung at the entrance of Shinto shrines: visitors ring them by pulling a rope to call the…
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Katana Botan (T10 Steel)
$199DiscoverThe peony (botan) is called in Japan "the king of flowers": introduced from China during the Nara period, it quickly conquered the imperial…
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Katana Daichi (1060 Carbon Steel)
$240DiscoverDaichi means "great earth": the planet understood as stable support, source of life, solid foundation. It is one of the five elements of…
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Katana Kazaguruma (Blue Damascus Steel)
$390DiscoverThe kazaguruma is the pinwheel, the colorful paper windmill sold at Japanese summer festivals (matsuri) and displayed on children’s…
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Katana Akigumo (Blue Damascus Steel)
$390DiscoverThe autumn clouds — akigumo — are the high, thin ones that arrange themselves in long horizontal bands after the rainy season ends. They…
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Katana Kogetsu (Carbon Steel 1060)
$199DiscoverKogetsu is the arcing moon — the slender crescent that appears shortly after the new moon: the first moment the satellite becomes…
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Katana Mononoke (T10 Steel, Mirror Polish with Authentic Hamon)
$390DiscoverMononoke are indistinct spirits of Japanese folk tradition: neither deities (kami) nor ghosts (yurei), but manifestations of…
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Katana Inazuma (Blue Damascus Steel)
$340DiscoverInazuma is the summer lightning bolt — the electrical discharge that crosses the sky in a fraction of a second before the thunder…
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Katana Fujin (T10 Steel with Hitatsura Hamon)
Original price was: $744.$620Current price is: $620.DiscoverFujin is the kami of wind, iconic brother of Raiden, depicted as a green demon carrying a great bag of wind on his shoulders. The two…
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Katana Hotaru (Damascus Steel)
Original price was: $299.$229Current price is: $229.DiscoverHotaru, fireflies, are the centerpiece of a Japanese summer ritual: hotarugari, the "firefly hunt," during which families gather along…
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Katana Yuzuki (Damascus Steel with Authentic Hamon)
Original price was: $714.$595Current price is: $595.DiscoverYuzuki is the December moon seen through the window of a Japanese country house while yuzu fruit ripens yellow on the garden tree. It is a…
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Angel Wing Katana — T10 Steel (Sharpened)
$199DiscoverThe iconography of the angel — a figure between the human and the divine, bearing broad wings and its own luminosity — runs through…
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Blue Dragon King Katana — T10 Steel (Sharpened)
$199DiscoverThe Blue Dragon King is an archetypal figure in contemporary fantasy: a draconic sovereign associated with water, sky, and cold majesty.…