Hamon
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What is Hamon (刃文)?
The temper line pattern visible along the edge, created by differential hardening.
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Coarse, rough nie particles; large martensite crystals visible as bright points in the hamon.
Hailstone pattern; small round nie formations in the hamon resembling hail.
Storm-like ground texture; turbulent, swirling patterns in the ji-hada steel grain.
Legs; short lines extending from the hamon toward the edge.
The side or area where ashi (legs) extend from the hamon toward the cutting edge (ha).
Guard duty temper; a type of hamon pattern associated with practical military blades.
"Tone" or "manner"; a suffix meaning based on or tending toward the named form, as in suguha-chō (a temper based on suguha with slight variation) or notare-chō. (In place names -chō is a different word, 町, "town" or "ward".)
Clove-shaped pattern resembling the clove spice bud.
Ashi (legs) extending from a choji (clove-shaped) hamon toward the cutting edge.
Clove-shaped hamon pattern with rounded protrusions resembling clove buds.
Having a touch of chōji; a temper (usually gunome or ko-midare) mixed with a slight chōji feel.
Irregular clove pattern.