JAPANESE SWORD MUSEUM OF BIZEN OSAFUNE
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This Sabres museum is located in the city of Osafune, a city that was once flourishing, which was an important place to manufacture Japanese weapons. During your visit, you will discover the history and process of sabres.
A good saber must keep a good edge, withstand the impacts and the bending. In order to meet this triple demand, the Japanese saber is made up of a soft, low carbon (shingane) core, with a low carbon content (kawagane) with higher carbon content. The whole is called tamahagane. A key part of the forging of a blade is the trempe, which is the most difficult part of the work and the most appealing to the craftsmanship of the craftsman. Once the metal block of iron core and steel coating has been hammered and folded several times, the blade is coated with clay clay (yakiba-tsuchi). By using spatulas, the layer of earth is soleplate on the edge of the edge of the edge to expose it to heat and thus harden it. This process (tsuchidori) creates on the set of patterns, prep, distinctive of each blade. If on some blades this pattern is parallel to the edge, it can form on others complex drawings. These drawings are due to the unequal cooling speed of the steel during the trempe. Several katanas, tachi, wakizashi are exposed in windows, but the most impressive is the manufacture of the saber from iron sprinkled (the tamahagane) to the ultimate finish of the bags, which can be admired in all their stages in the various neighbouring workshops, made by venerable craftsmen.
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