This craft needs to preserved. It's invaluable and once lost hard to retrieve once again. Would be so nice to see an apprenticeship program established as a choice between this an university. Apprentices are earning money gradually while learning the craft in the workshop and all necessary theory in a specific school for these artisans. It could save so much knowledge and be beneficial to youngsters who don't feel like going to university after graduating high school. This system described is already implemented in Germany and works quite well.
Good for you old boy not letting the fascist dogs taking away your livelihood! A lot of that lately...where would humans be without the "righteous army" raising from time to time!?! Anyways...Korea would be vise to give this man a national pension as well as a title of "National Heritage Keeper".
・Yi Ik (李瀷, 이익), "Seonghosaseol (星湖僿說, 성호사설)" : "Although we have iron and furnaces of our own, both our swords and mirrors are no match for the wisdom of WA to make those ones. All the craftsmen in my country, in comparison with other foreign craftsmen, are regarded as worldly low-down ones." ・"The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實録, 조선왕조실록)," 17 June, 1593: "More likely our blunt swords are mere tree branches, and are no more than a child's toy in comparison with Japanese swords. Our swords are possibly scraped like hemp by Japanese swords." ・Further, Philipp Franz von Siebold states in his book as follows: "Joseon's industrial technology seems to have a long way to go to catch up with those of their neighboring countries such as China and Japan. Technology of woodworking here, among others, is absolutely less advanced, and the feature of their potteries looks terrible. Their iron wares, especially swords along with other knives, are of low value." (cited from "Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern")
There were also s****y japanese mass produced swords known as tabagatana or kazu uchi mono. Some of them had air bubbles on their surface and were known as one battle swords 😂 From what i know some nihontos and yari spears broke easily, too😂 There is nothing better than modern steel ( maybe with a few exceptions)
@@Borg746 rumor has it that japanese katana is brittle on the whole. especially, you koreans desperately try to diss intensity of japanese katana so as to belittle its worldwide fame, due to your deep envy and incurable feeling of inferiority towards japan. surely, so many cheap swords had been manufactured in mass quantities for conscripted farmers called "ashigaru" during the age of provincial wars of japan (commonly referred to as the "sengoku period"). overall, these mass-produced and cheap swords were/are so blunt and fragile. however, "intensity of sword" varies in accordance with its price. needless to say, cheaper swords like props are naturally more fragile than expensive ones that were made with the utmost care. you will find an example of strong blade of katana here on youtube. just copy and paste the letters below, and watch its contents: ↓ 《Japanese Katana VS European Longsword Samurai sword VS Knight Broadsword》
@@dandylion3783 We koreans? 🤣 I am from Poland and I am a fan of spring tempered Euro-blades 😎 But I have seen som nihonto test on youtube(made a few years ago by the japanese)-nothing impressive. From what i know in the XIX century some british soldiers got a katana and put it to the test. They damaged it easily (they just hit it against some british saber). Lots of very good info about Nihontos online and I am not impressed. I mean i really like japanese swords (especially tachis and wakizashis) but japanese sword making technology was archaic.
@@Borg746from structural perspective Japanese swords are indeed superior due to its composite construction. Bubble flaws is an unfortunate cosmetic flaw due to this construction method. The harder and high carbon content the steel is the more brittle it is, the ingenuity of Japanese sword is that they place the hard and sharp steel as core then laminate it via forging with softer steel on both side to make it best of both worlds. Now due to difference in temperature contraction of different metal there might be cosmetic cracks and bubbles on the outer layer but quality and strength of the whole sword remained superior. In Showa era they developed oil quenching method which forms no flaws but because it cool at a slower speed, the swords aren't as hard and sharp as before.
Why do Koreans make Japanese swords? Korea was a vassal state of China for about 1,000 years, and historically Korean swords were double-edged in the Chinese style, but here they make single-edged Japanese swords. Why?
They're not Japanese swords. Though the Korean Jingum shares similarities with the Japanese katana, they have different blade geometries and curvatures.
The construction method he is using is vastly different from Japanese Sanmai method, the similarity is simply one sided blade and cosmetic. He seemed to use some method similar to Damascus/pattern welding, Japanese sword is composite - harder piece of steel in the core sandwiched by softer steel on both side to make it stronger.
Historically all Korean swords were single edged straight swords called hwandudaedo. For over 1500 years this was the swords used in Korea. However when the confucianist joseon dynasty took cotnrol of Korea sometime before the 1400s, the emphasis on the miltiary declined and swords fell out of use in favor of the bow. But generally during the joseon dynasty the military was not considered for at all. That is why Korea had bad swords.
This craft needs to preserved. It's invaluable and once lost hard to retrieve once again. Would be so nice to see an apprenticeship program established as a choice between this an university. Apprentices are earning money gradually while learning the craft in the workshop and all necessary theory in a specific school for these artisans. It could save so much knowledge and be beneficial to youngsters who don't feel like going to university after graduating high school. This system described is already implemented in Germany and works quite well.
I wish there was a way I could help keep this tradition alive. Or at least get one of his works!
where Japanese learned to make their swords from
From the Shosoin record books and collection, China (Tang) and Korea (Goryeo).
Learned and perfected to another level
LOL no
대단히 귀중한 전통 기술 이네요
우리 조상들 의 소중한 기술이 후대 에도
전해 질수 있기를 기대 합니다
I’m watching on 2023 😮
Good for you old boy not letting the fascist dogs taking away your livelihood! A lot of that lately...where would humans be without the "righteous army" raising from time to time!?! Anyways...Korea would be vise to give this man a national pension as well as a title of "National Heritage Keeper".
국내 도검제작 기술의 기록도 기술자도 너무 적거나 없으니 결국 중국.일본의 기술을 보고 적은 양의 기록과 유적을 보고 복원하는 수 밖에...
국내외에서 일본기술이다 ㅈㄹ하는것도 어쩔 수 없는거 같다
・Yi Ik (李瀷, 이익), "Seonghosaseol (星湖僿說, 성호사설)" :
"Although we have iron and furnaces of our own, both our swords and mirrors are no match for the wisdom of WA to make those ones.
All the craftsmen in my country, in comparison with other foreign craftsmen, are regarded as worldly low-down ones."
・"The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實録, 조선왕조실록)," 17 June, 1593:
"More likely our blunt swords are mere tree branches, and are no more than a child's toy in comparison with Japanese swords.
Our swords are possibly scraped like hemp by Japanese swords."
・Further, Philipp Franz von Siebold states in his book as follows:
"Joseon's industrial technology seems to have a long way to go to catch up with those of their neighboring countries such as China and Japan.
Technology of woodworking here, among others, is absolutely less advanced, and the feature of their potteries looks terrible. Their iron wares, especially swords along with other knives, are of low value."
(cited from "Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländern")
🤡🤡🤡
There were also s****y japanese mass produced swords known as tabagatana or kazu uchi mono. Some of them had air bubbles on their surface and were known as one battle swords 😂
From what i know some nihontos and yari spears broke easily, too😂
There is nothing better than modern steel ( maybe with a few exceptions)
@@Borg746
rumor has it that japanese katana is brittle on the whole.
especially, you koreans desperately try to diss intensity of japanese katana
so as to belittle its worldwide fame, due to your deep envy and incurable feeling of
inferiority towards japan.
surely, so many cheap swords had been manufactured in mass quantities for conscripted farmers called "ashigaru" during the age of provincial wars of japan (commonly referred to as the "sengoku period").
overall, these mass-produced and cheap swords were/are so blunt and fragile.
however, "intensity of sword" varies in accordance with its price.
needless to say, cheaper swords like props are naturally more fragile than expensive ones
that were made with the utmost care.
you will find an example of strong blade of katana here on youtube.
just copy and paste the letters below, and watch its contents: ↓
《Japanese Katana VS European Longsword Samurai sword VS Knight Broadsword》
@@dandylion3783 We koreans? 🤣 I am from Poland and I am a fan of spring tempered Euro-blades 😎
But I have seen som nihonto test on youtube(made a few years ago by the japanese)-nothing impressive.
From what i know in the XIX century some british soldiers got a katana and put it to the test. They damaged it easily (they just hit it against some british saber).
Lots of very good info about Nihontos online and I am not impressed. I mean i really like japanese swords (especially tachis and wakizashis) but japanese sword making technology was archaic.
@@Borg746from structural perspective Japanese swords are indeed superior due to its composite construction. Bubble flaws is an unfortunate cosmetic flaw due to this construction method.
The harder and high carbon content the steel is the more brittle it is, the ingenuity of Japanese sword is that they place the hard and sharp steel as core then laminate it via forging with softer steel on both side to make it best of both worlds.
Now due to difference in temperature contraction of different metal there might be cosmetic cracks and bubbles on the outer layer but quality and strength of the whole sword remained superior.
In Showa era they developed oil quenching method which forms no flaws but because it cool at a slower speed, the swords aren't as hard and sharp as before.
Why do Koreans make Japanese swords? Korea was a vassal state of China for about 1,000 years, and historically Korean swords were double-edged in the Chinese style, but here they make single-edged Japanese swords. Why?
Well east Asia sword have similar look 😂 . And no need to question a things that's about other people continents
They're not Japanese swords. Though the Korean Jingum shares similarities with the Japanese katana, they have different blade geometries and curvatures.
The construction method he is using is vastly different from Japanese Sanmai method, the similarity is simply one sided blade and cosmetic.
He seemed to use some method similar to Damascus/pattern welding, Japanese sword is composite - harder piece of steel in the core sandwiched by softer steel on both side to make it stronger.
Japan stole swordmaking culture from korea
Historically all Korean swords were single edged straight swords called hwandudaedo. For over 1500 years this was the swords used in Korea. However when the confucianist joseon dynasty took cotnrol of Korea sometime before the 1400s, the emphasis on the miltiary declined and swords fell out of use in favor of the bow. But generally during the joseon dynasty the military was not considered for at all. That is why Korea had bad swords.