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HANDMADE KOGATANA by ISHIDO TERUHIDE
207mm x 24mm
RARE KIRIDASHI KOGATANA BY ISHIDO TERUHIDE. This is a large size kogatana by Hideo-san that I purchased from his son Yoshitaka-san. It is 207mm long by 24mm wide and is made of Swedish Blue Steel and komanji antique bridge iron. This blade comes in a fitted paulownia wood box that is marked on the lid KOGATANA meaning this type of single bevel working knife, and on the end of the box is the Ishido Hamono seal which reads ISHIDO KANNA SEI SAKUJO or Kanna Maker Ishido Teruhide. The handle of the kogatana is marked in hand engraved kanji by Hideo himself ISHIDO TERUHIDE SAKU or Made By Ishido Teruhide. The back of the handle is marked HYAKUREN which means Hit One Hundred Times. This is a one of a kind hand made knife by one of the legends of modern Japanese blacksmithing.
The blade was made sometime in the 1970s at the Ishido Hamono factory in Oyama. Ishido Hideo-san took pride in finishing his products himself and had an uncanny natural ability in the tempering phase. The fine textured handle, hand engraved inscriptions and plane simple blackened back is typical of the no nonsense approach that all Ishido forged products display.
PRICE $575