With the HI Everest Katana on the verge of coming out, is there any consideration to doing a Wakizashi with the length between 12 and 24 inches to accompany the katana?
Harry
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Harry, we will need to get maybe 25 or 30 katanas under our belt first and see how they do in the field. If they do as well as the prototypes then a Wakizashi is a distinct possibility if not a downright requirement.
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A HI daisho...
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HIKV all over again...
Mike
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*TWITCH*
HIKV all over again...
Mike
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Guys, you heard Uncle Bill. Start buying those katanas!
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An Everest Katana is VERY attracting to me except I can't have one in Japan. A wakizashi, preferrably straight or slightly drop pointed, have far better chance for me to put my hands on it.
A wakizashi half as long as katana, made of same amount of steel, double thickness, same size handle but of traditional khukuri style, and dui chirra style will be top of my wish list.
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A wakizashi half as long as katana, made of same amount of steel, double thickness, same size handle but of traditional khukuri style, and dui chirra style will be top of my wish list.
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I think that it would be probably better simply to stick with the same style blade but total length about 18-22 inches. The handle certainly could be like a khukuri handle including the mid-handle ring, but not making the flared out buttcap so pronounced. Hmmm... a sub-hilt khukuri handled wakizashi does have some appeal....
Harry
Harry
Whaaa?
You can't own a katana in Japan? Or you just can't import one?
Mike
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You can't own a katana in Japan? Or you just can't import one?
Mike
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I think I see a wakizashi in the future.
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Coronach, katanas are okay here but only genuine ones. Why?
In Japan,
weapons are banned.
swords are weapons.
but somehow a katana is not a weapon.
so if a blade is a katana or not is judged by no functional point of view but an artistic statue made by steel. A katana in legal definition is " made in traditional way from tratidional material by licensed katana-smith with certification issued before made then registered".
Or, it is a sword and then a weapon, illegal to own.
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In Japan,
weapons are banned.
swords are weapons.
but somehow a katana is not a weapon.
so if a blade is a katana or not is judged by no functional point of view but an artistic statue made by steel. A katana in legal definition is " made in traditional way from tratidional material by licensed katana-smith with certification issued before made then registered".
Or, it is a sword and then a weapon, illegal to own.
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Mizutani Satoshi san:
What worries me is that after going to bed and sleeping on this overnight, I awakened probably stll wrong yet sufficiently twisted enough to have a general concept of what you have been respectfully trying to convince your customs of in order to import some of the objects d'art you wish.
If the Khukuri is the symbol of Nepal, a 27" banspati made by the same Bura the artisan that created the King's own is not a weapon, but the essence of Nepal, if that all can be documented.
Likewise, the Kumar and old Master of the malla period would not be a weapon but a historical replica of a museum artifact.
To further confuse things, the Kora, or traditional Gorkhali weapon, would although still a weapon, be considered art and thus importable.
The logic behind the above may well be flawed, but it seems to be flowing from the same form of reaoning you described ) which may of course be differed with in the same fashion to come up with opposite conclusions ). Let me know if I've got a clue here. The circuit breakers in my mind are tripping off regularly and it' time to shut my mind down and let it cool bfore rebooting.
What worries me is that after going to bed and sleeping on this overnight, I awakened probably stll wrong yet sufficiently twisted enough to have a general concept of what you have been respectfully trying to convince your customs of in order to import some of the objects d'art you wish.
If the Khukuri is the symbol of Nepal, a 27" banspati made by the same Bura the artisan that created the King's own is not a weapon, but the essence of Nepal, if that all can be documented.
Likewise, the Kumar and old Master of the malla period would not be a weapon but a historical replica of a museum artifact.
To further confuse things, the Kora, or traditional Gorkhali weapon, would although still a weapon, be considered art and thus importable.
The logic behind the above may well be flawed, but it seems to be flowing from the same form of reaoning you described ) which may of course be differed with in the same fashion to come up with opposite conclusions ). Let me know if I've got a clue here. The circuit breakers in my mind are tripping off regularly and it' time to shut my mind down and let it cool bfore rebooting.
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Japanese customs are very tough and very confusing and they seem to vary from port to port.
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After WWII all swords were banned to disarm Japanese. Claiming a katana, traditionally made from traditional material, was an art and the only exception, was the last resort. I agree most of swords that has kept hudreds of years have its own tradition and aesthetical value that enabled it to survive the long years.
There is a way to own them in Japan. Build a museum myself, open to public and keep them in glass case...
Nowadays it's getting tougher to own any knife. Nutheads wields cooking knives everywhere. Hijacking bus here, murder for just to "experience a murder" there ...
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There is a way to own them in Japan. Build a museum myself, open to public and keep them in glass case...
Nowadays it's getting tougher to own any knife. Nutheads wields cooking knives everywhere. Hijacking bus here, murder for just to "experience a murder" there ...
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Welcome to America, oi-chan!!!!!!
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