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Tachi appeared upon Heian period late period. This time tachi’s feature for blade body rather narrow, blade body than before’s straight blade fine, adopt small cuts first, blade handle place’s bend than blade body big. Mainly take Kyoto and Nara surrounding place’s high quality iron ore for raw material. Therefore its origin place also more concentrate in this one region, like Shimane, Okayama County.
Kamakura period (1185-1333) is tachi development of gold period. Japan of sword production technology flying speed develop, Japan person good at military outspread into vogue. This time’s tachi besides continue Heian period tachi’s feature external, blade body begin become wide, blade body’s bend begin increase and adopt large cuts first.
Kamakura period use of tachi general from external view points distinguish have black lacquer tachi, black lacquer white gold tachi, leather package black lacquer tachi and so on call Northern and Southern Dynasties period (1336-1392). Stout of tachi begin popular, appeared has blade body long in 85 cm moreover of large tachi, and called nodachi. Mainly used warrior them show off martial force, in war in not practical.
Literature middle keeps records of maximum tachi long 300 cm. Now exist within of longest nodachi full long about 225 cm, now exist upon Japanese Japan Niigata County of Yahiko Shrine in, for Japanese of national treasures one of.
Tachi use when not but can stab, still has slash of function. Therefore this kind use way’s change for Japan martial art’s development created has conditions.
Insufficient is portable inconvenient. Since hang in waist place, even is ride horse time also very easy touch ground. This also is tachi eventually by tachi replaced of reason.
To has Muromachi period middle period, with tachi’s appearance, tachi progressively goodbye army weapon stage.
Despite nearly identical blades, distinct functional distinctions defined traditional battleground application between elegant tachi and rugged katana:
Tachi optimized for mounted attack with inverted wearing obstructing infantry. Katana afforded both cavalry and ground soldiers an versatile two-handed grip for responsive barehanded battle readiness.
Scabbard fittings also signal status – tachi paired with suspending cord loops while katana sheaths integrated utilitarian kurigata fixtures.
Thus through the 14th century mass infantry armament necessitated transition toward the versatile katana, cementing its signature tactical role and symbolic social rise. Katana ultimately liberated swordsmanship from exclusivity to exonerate soldiers, while tachi maintained ceremonial nobility. In parallel poles lies unified tribute to the Japanese sword’s enduring spectrum of service.
As a relatively high-end type of Japanese sword, tachi is generally relatively gorgeous. As a symbol of status, some of these tachi have high collection value and arouse the curiosity of many people. The tachi is one of the pinnacles of sword casting. However, due to length and weight limitations, it is difficult to use Tachi in Ready battle.
Odachi attracts the curiosity of many people. In the Edo period, odachi was recognized as an offering to the kami of Shinto shrines. It is a sword full of mystery and worthy of respect. ZoroKatana provides high-quality Odachi & Nodachi for sale , designed in Japan and hand-forged by swordsmiths who inherited 200 years of casting technology from Longquan, China.