Hira Zukuri S5 Steel Super Tameshigiri Katana

Shadow Dancer's Hira Zukuri Tameshigiri Katana combines affordability, function, and elegance. It has a hira zukuri blade, featuring neither a shinogi nor yokote. This type of blade is standard since the Heian period for tanto and ko-wakizashi. However, the Muromachi period saw a considerable number of katana with the hira zukuri blade.

Forged from steel, heat treated via oil quenching, and mirror polished, it does to have a hamon, but features a bohi to help lighten the overall weight of the blade while improving its point of balance. The blade is secured to the tsuka with a mekugi.

It features an iron tsuba with a samurai carved on it; blackened brass fuchi, kashira, menuki; silver plated brass seppa; and cupronickel habaki. The tsuka is inlaid with white samegawa and wrapped with kapok ito from Japan. Sheathed in a black saya with horn koiguchi, kurigata, and kojiri, it comes with a thickened sageo that goes through the cupronickel shitodome.