The Tokugawa shogunate was a feudal-like military dictatorship of Japan established in the 17th century lasting until 1868. It marks a period often referred to loosely as 'feudal Japan', otherwise known as the Edo period. While modern historians have become very reluctant to classify other societies into European models, in Japan, the system of land tenure and a vassal receiving tenure in exchange for an oath of fealty is very close to what happened in parts of medieval Europe, and thus the term is sometimes used in connection with Japan.
Our version of the Feudal Lord Katana has an overall length of 39.5 inches with a 27 inch hand polished stainless steel blade and is accompanied with a color matching sageo cord wrapped saya scabbard. It has a metal cast tsuba handguard in the shape of two Japanese dragons and the tsuka handle is finished in a traditional Japanese ito wrap.
