Tamahagane Shirasaya Katana Japanese Sword Clay Tempered Hand-Polished Nodachi Total Weight: *Missing Data*

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the more difficult (and expensive) it is to heat the whole blade to a homogeneous temperature

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Tamahagane Shirasaya Katana Japanese Sword Clay Tempered Hand-Polished Nodachi Total Weight: *Missing Data*Item Introduction Tamahagane, which in Japanese literally means "jewel steel" or "precious steel", is a type of steel made in the Japanese traditional way. Tamahagane is made by smelting iron sand in a clay furnace called "tatara" and mixing it with charcoal to produce steel with various carbon content. This very laborious process takes as much as 3 days. After the smelting process, the tatara is broken and the steel bloom or "kera" is broken and