Hagarami

[DirkO]

Hi,

 

I've come across this term here and there and they always describe it as being a variant of an hagire, but is there someone who can explain me more clearly (pref with pic !) exactly what kind of kizu a hagarami is. And is it a fatal flaw ? All my books simply describe it in words and I can't picture it, I'm afraid....

[Brian]

I could be wrong, but i understand a hagire to be a vertical crack, and a hagarami to be the same as a hagire, but at an oblique angle...ie not vertical. Both fatal though if through the hamon.

 

Someone correct me if I am wrong?

 

Brian

[Bugyotsuji]

Kokan Nagayama defines the two words in much the same way as Brian above. Hagarami: an oblique crack in the cutting edge. (As opposed to Hagire which is vertical)

[Stephen]

once more from sword and the same

[DirkO]

Sorry Stephen, from your "once more" I gather you've given this explanation more than a few times

I did however search this forum and it didn't give me any hits on "hagarami". In the books I had, it also spoke of an "oblique" crack, however I didn't fully understand what it meant untill your very descriptive pic from Joly's book. (don't have that book yet)

 

So a well meant "thank you" to you Stephen (and off course also to the rest of you who so willingly answered my rather basic question)