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Samurai Swords/When was cotton first used in Japan?
I'm trying to determine what the earliest possible date that cotton could have been used as ITO,the braid/wrapping over the SAME or ray skin on the TSUKA or handle of Japanese Swords/Katanas.Also,does anyone know which material,cotton,silk or perhaps some other unknown to me, was considered to be the best by the Samurai?
As far as I know, cotton is not generally used for ito wrap in Japan. I know it is sometimes used as a cheap subsitute for silk by some chinese sword manufacturers. Silk is considered the best material for the ito wrap.
I don't think cotton is indigenous to Japan, so its first appearance was as an import from China where it has always been a major crop. Being as Japan was isolated for centuries and contact with mainland China sporadic, it is nigh on impossible to say when imports of cotton first came to Japan.
Kumori Katana, Thaitsuki Nihonto, www.katana-samurai-sword.com
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