Ōgon Kiku Tanto (黄金菊) – Golden Chrysanthemum

£205.00

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Ōgon Kiku Tanto (黄金菊) – Golden Chrysanthemum
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Discover the Ōgon Kiku (黄金菊) – Golden Chrysanthemum tanto, whose small gilded-alloy guard takes the form of a chrysanthemum, with a rim sculpted in bamboo segments. The gilded fuchi and kashira are chiselled with matching blossoms. The T10 steel blade, clay-tempered, reveals a genuine gunome midare hamon. The speckled golden-brown lacquered saya completes this luminous tanto.

  • Hand-finished
  • Ultra-hard steel
  • Cutting performance and decorative refinement

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Ōgon Kiku (黄金菊): the golden chrysanthemum

The chrysanthemum, kiku, is Japan’s most emblematic flower: it graces the imperial seal and embodies longevity and nobility. Rendered in gold (ōgon), it becomes an image of prestige and radiance.

This tanto places it at the very heart of its mounting: a gilded kiku-gata guard shaped as a chrysanthemum, and blossoms chiselled in relief on the fuchi and kashira. The golden-brown saya extends this warm, luminous harmony throughout.

A T10 steel blade with a genuine gunome midare hamon

The blade is crafted from T10 steel, a high-carbon steel prized for its hardness. Clay tempering has drawn out a genuine gunome midare hamon, crisp and well-contrasted against a dark grey polished steel surface.

The blade features a small ko-kissaki point, with no hi.

A gilded mounting in chrysanthemum form

The tsuba is a small kiku-gata guard in gilded alloy, shaped as a chrysanthemum. Its polished ground (migaki) carries a floral motif in relief (takabori), and its rim is sculpted in segments evoking bamboo. It has no openwork. Two gilded brass seppa with a fluted edge frame it on either side.

The fuchi and kashira in gilded alloy are chiselled with blossoms in relief, matching the guard. The handle combines wood with faux black rayskin, beneath a beige tsuka-ito wrapped in hineri-maki, with gilded menuki. The ichimai habaki in gilded brass is engraved with crosshatching and striations.

A speckled golden-brown lacquered saya

The saya is solid wood, covered in a bright kawari-nuri speckled golden-brown lacquer that echoes the gold of the mounting. The rounded (maru) koiguchi and kojiri are lacquered in plain black. The black-lacquered kurikata with gilded shitodome accepts a beige cotton sageo.

Dimensions and handling of the tanto

With a blade of 33 cm and an overall length of 55 cm, Ōgon Kiku is a tanto of generous proportions. Its 17 cm handle sits firmly in one hand. At 0.7 kg, it remains light in the hand. At 57 cm in its saya, a format that showcases its gilded guard to full effect on a display stand.

Additional information

Blade Material: No selection

T10 Steel
Blade colour: No selection

Dark grey polished steel; hamon rendered in clear, well-contrasted relief
Hamon: No selection

With Hamon
Hamon Type: No selection

True gunome midare hamon achieved through clay differential hardening
Bo-Hi (棒樋): No selection

No
Scabbard (Saya 鞘): No selection

Glossy speckled golden-brown lacquered solid wood (kawari-nuri); black lacquered kurikata set with a gilded shitodome.
Sageo (下げ緒): No selection

Beige cotton hira-sageo, threaded through the black kurikata with its gilded shitodome.
Handle (Tsuka 柄): No selection

Black faux stingray leather and wood
Tsuka-ITO (柄糸): No selection

Beige, hineri-maki wrap
Menuki (目貫): No selection

Gilded
Guard (Tsuba 鍔): No selection

Small Kiku-gata guard in gilded alloy; migaki ground, floral decoration in takabori; rounded maru-mimi rim carved in segments evoking bamboo; without openwork.
Fuchi (縁): No selection

Gilded alloy, chased with raised floral motifs, matching the tsuba
Kashira (頭): No selection

Gilded alloy, cap decorated with raised flowers, matching the fuchi
Habaki (鎺): No selection

Gilded brass, ichimai, engraved with cross-hatching and oblique striations
Blade length (cm): No selection

33
Overall length including handle (cm): No selection

55
Length with scabbard (cm): No selection

57
Handle length (cm): No selection

17
Blade thickness (cm): No selection

0.7
Blade width (cm): No selection

3.2
Weight (kg): No selection

0.7
Package weight (kg): No selection

1

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